Word: tower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bishop is visiting the United States in the interests of the memorial monument and tower which is being erected at Verdun in memory of the countless unidentified allied coldiers who died in action upon the battlefields in the vicinity. America's contribution to the memorial is expected to be complete in the near future...
Though the meeting is an open one and no admission will be charged, coaches and officials from all over New England are expected to compose the main part of the audience. The interpretation of new rules will be made by Oswald Tower who is a member of the Joint Rules Committee, a national body for basketball officials, and who acts as the chief interpreter for this district...
...push down into a lake the bell which had just been cast by a certain villager named Heinrich. This Heinrich, like his wife Magda, the schoolmaster, the barber, and the pastor, was a simple peasant. All his life he had worked on the bell to hang in the church tower-so long, so hard that, when the bell crashed down the mountainside into the lake, his heart cracked too, would not mend until Rautendelein kissed him and took him with her into the forest. There, with new youth, new courage, he started a second bell, sang praises as he worked...
...tells his wife, is still explaining away when in bursts an old flame. At this point Playwright Strong trephines the husband's skull, lays open the human brain. Centers of nerve control are represented by figures at sets of levers much like those in a railroad switching tower. One normal voice speaks the words that the husband has spoken aloud during the first scene of the play. Another voice, terrifyingly mechanical, intones the husband's unspoken thoughts. The "nerve centers'' also speak their reactions, crying "pain! pain!" when MacKenna stubs...
Clevelanders last week learned why the hawk fed leisurely outside the Van Sweringen windows. Atop the 54-story tower building is a huge beacon. Birds migrating at night are blinded by the glare, dash against the building, drop broken-bodied to the balcony projection...