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...watts. WLW's new 500,000-watt equipment makes it ten times stronger than any of its 20 biggest rivals in the U. S. Most spectacular item is its antenna-a steel frame 831 ft. tall, 35 ft. thick at the middle, tapering up to a slim spire and down almost to a point. Total cost of the venture was close to $500,000. WLW's programs should be picked up by an ordinary set under any conditions within a 2,500-mi. radius, under good conditions anywhere in the world. Other radiocasters and the Federal Radio Commission...
...friend tells us that he lived in Gore Hall in his Freshman year four years ago, and that his bathroom there was blessed with a real tub. The next year when his dormitory was incorporated into a House, he moved away, aspiring successfully to a garret underneath a floodlit spire. But he has missed his tub terribly; he has longed many times for the warm artificial pond wherein he used to read, write themes, sleep, invent refreshments and occasionally washed...
Freshmen living in the Yard will be deeply grieved to find themselves awakened the first morning at five minutes of seven by the leisurely but loud tolling of a deep-toned bell, slung high in the spire of the new Memorial Chapel. For five minutes it will continue its song until everyone is thoroughly awake, and then it will considerately stop. It is rung by wheel and bell-rope, taking great skill to manipulate it, at seven, quarter of nine, nine, and thenceforth on the hour throughout the day till four. Two other bells, which compete with...
...people every day look at the steeple-jack repairing the spire of First Church Unitarian in the Square...
While the Godless cheered, Red Soldiers shinnied up the steeple, tied ropes to it. A snorting tractor-symbol of the Five-Year Plan-was hitched to the ropes, snorted, backfired, got under way and pulled down not only Kolpana's spire but half the ancient church with it. Rushing into the ruins, Godless comrades seized and carried off the church's simple brass & copper fixtures, "needed to make Soviet airplanes...