Word: beacons
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Moreover, unlike special issue groups such as SANE, the Young Republicans(or Young Democrats for that matter) tend not to be intellectually oriented as on organization. The Harvard Young Republicans have produced policy papers on civil rights and civil defense, and presently are assisting state legislators in research on Beacon Hill. But this is not typical fare for a Young Republican club, and not even the primary interest of the Harvard Young Republicans...
Boston College is the folk school of the Boston Irish-a Jesuit beacon that in the past century lit the lowly immigrant's way from the first landfall to the last hurrah. Now the tiny city school that got its charter in 1863 counts 11,000 students, most of them on a sweeping 200-acre campus in suburban Chestnut Hill. With six graduate and professional schools, coed B.C. is one of the nation's biggest and best Catholic universities. Boston College watered the roots that grew the first Irish-Catholic U.S. President, and last week Himself...
...that time, if not before, the aspiring teachers who know Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (and every teacher should) will begin to see the tower as something other than the beacon of American education. Behind the window slits, vaulted ports, and bulging bastions, grey-green scaly orks will lurk, whispering in the Black Speech, plotting hideous amusements. Hulking trolls will patrol the moat. Shelob, the monstrous arachnid, will have spun her webs among the stairways, ducts, and circuits of the "service perimeter." On the battlements will wait the flying Nazgul, their piercing cries cutting across the Common...
Architectural Beacon...
...easy manner and quick intelligence were winning friends all across the state. In his campaign for attorney general, Brooke ran hard-"like a Democrat," state politicians admiringly admitted-was often up to handshake at factory gates by 5:30 a.m., won support from Boston bankers and Beacon Hill matrons...