Word: tower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recalled that only a few weeks ago (TIME, Oct. 5, NATIONAL AFFAIRS) the U.S. submarine S-51 was run down in nearly similar circumstances by the U.S. coastwise steamer City of Rome. In this instance three of the submarine's crew escaped through the conning tower of the S-51 as she sank. The crew of the M1, less fortunate, perished to a man. Like the Vidar, the City of Rome was unharmed. The hulls of submarines are not so stout as those of surface ships...
...expected that the Senate would kill the bill if it ever passed the Chamber. Le Temps called the present fiscal situation "a Tower of Babel...
...Football was finally beginning to take on a modern aspect with a genuine differentiation between backfield and line. Scouting was not yet a business and sometimes chose picturesque methods. Some enterprising Yale men were wont to observe Harvard's secret practice on Soldiers Field from the Mount Auburn Cemetery tower, until Major Henry Lee Higginson was apprised of the situation and built such a lofty fence in a strategic position that thenceforth the Yale scouts saw nothing but an expanse of pine boards...
...Tokyo, a professor of the Imperial University explained 16 skeletons beneath the foundation of an old castle tower as probable relics of a "human pillar," such as the ancient Japanese would bury at bridgeheads or embankments to propitiate the super-god of rivers during construction projects...
...Babylon, excavations have proceeded as never before. British and University of Pennsylvania diggers continued turning up the wonders of Ur of the Chaldees. Their finding of the great ziggurat or tower, the temple of the moon god and the temple of Nin-Gal, wife of the moon god, was reported in TIME, March...