Word: tower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard line-up will be the same as that which faced Columbia last Saturday, with Whitbeck No. 1. Lugraham No. 2. Ward No. 3. Breese No. 4. Ware No. 5. Tower No. 6. and Trask entered in the doubles. Coach Cowles will not announce his doubles combinations until after the singles matches have been played...
...Rotterdam field. Croydon has two steel and concrete hangars, providing 90,000 sq. ft. of floor space. Each hangar has overhead cranes to move planes and motors. Back of the hangars are workshops, storerooms. Croydon's administration building is a large two-story affair with a roomy control tower rising above one end. It contains waiting room, telegraph desks, book shop, rest rooms, quarters for police, immigration, customs, airline and air administration officials. From the passenger's viewpoint Croydon, like so many U. S. airports, is far (12 mi.) from the centre of the community (London...
...strongly did he feel the Gothic spirit of perpetual growth, he grew out of the Gothic style, out of all archaism and raised on the Nebraska prairie a building indigenous to its time and place. Its dun-colored masses are simple-a great flat base; a slim domed tower which rises more than 400 ft. In style it is mysterious-something of vanished Assyrian strongholds; something of Byzantine vaults, domes and mosaic ornament; something of simple Mayan massiveness. Perhaps the style is best called Nebraskan. The history
...spirit of the state infuse Sculptor Lee Lawrie's decorations. There are bison in bas-relief with inscriptions translated from Indian ritual. The maize plant replaces the classical acanthus. There are friezes of pioneers and covered wagons and on the pinnacle of the tower will shortly stride the colossal image of a sower. In addition to this local legend are figures and inscriptions symbolizing great government. From various corners, growing architecturally out of the walls, the austere faces of great lawgivers survey the prairies-Hammurabi, Moses, Pharaoh, Solon, Solomon, the Caesars, Charlemagne, Napoleon. No carven motto is more obvious...
...remaining four members of the Harvard team have been in the matches to date, E. B. Ward '30, No. 3; R. L. Tower '31, No. 4; J. L. Ware 30, No. 5; F. K. Trask '30, No. 6. These men pair up for doubles as follows: Ward and Ingraham, No. 1, Whitbeck and Trask, No. 2. Tower and Ware, No. 3. Breese may be used either in the singles or in the doubles or even in both...