Word: tower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard lineup will be the same as that which faced Amherst on Saturday, with Whitbeck No. 1. Ingraham No. 2. Ward No. 3. Breese No. 4. Ware No. 5. Tower No. 6. and F. K. Trask '29, Ogden Phipps '31, and J. G. Douglas '31 entered in the doubles. Coach Cowles will not announce his doubles combinations until after the singles matches have been played...
...other "Ben" alarm clocks are all namesakes of the 13½-ton bell in the clock tower of Britain's Houses of Parliament. The big bell was named "Ben" after Sir Benjamin Hall, in 1856 London's Commissioner of Works. Of all clock bells in the Empire none are more storied, more beloved. Therefore last week it seemed a splendid idea to take a movietone of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin listening, in his garden to "Big Ben" clang noon over the housetops...
...could Builder Ley's prophecy be considered a thought fathered by a wish. The already granted (effective May 1) five-day week for Manhattan bricklayers adds no speed to the erection of Mr. Ley's Chrysler Building, 42nd and Lexington, world's tallest (870 ft.) tower. Other famed Ley Manhattan skyscrapers are Fisk Building, 57th & Broadway; Liggett Building, 42nd & Madison; Westinghouse Building, 150 Broadway. Mr. Ley has constructed office buildings, apartment buildings, factories, sewers, trolley lines, bridges, waterworks, dams, highways and war camps (Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass., built in ten weeks), but neither in his early days in Springfield, Mass...
...Ingraham defeated Bowditch (A), 6-3, 7-5; Ward defeated Richardson (A), 6-2, 6-2; W. L. Breese '31 defeated Hicks (A), 6-3, 6-8, 6-3; J. L. Wage '30 defeated Notopulos (A), 4-6, 7-5, 6-2; R. L. Tower '31 defeated Clark...
Doubles--Ingraham and Ward defeated Hayes and Bowditch (A), 6-3, 7-9, 8-6; Whitbeck and F. K. Trask '30 defeated Richardson and, Hicks (A), 6-2, 6-3; Tower and W. L. Breese '31 defeated Niceson and Wyckoff...