Word: tower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposal to use the first three floors of the Eiffel Tower, respectively, as a restaurant, a dance hall and a. tea room on July 14 met with hot opposition from the French General Staff, who now utilize the Tower as a wireless and meteorological station. The refusal was based on the fact that it would establish a precedent and necessitate costly special insurance...
...Puritan England of Oliver Cromwell, John Milton decried the growing tendency to banish evil influences instead of enabling men to overcome them by a sense of personal responsibility. And the present move is, besides, some what reminiscent of the retreat of the eighteenth century romanticists to their ivory tower...
...Tower of Babel was something more than the first sky-scraper. It has gone down to posterity an everlasting symbol of the fatal consequences of idiom...
...favorite pastime of German radio fans is listening to Deutsehland Uber A lies. It recently came to the notice of German newspapers that whenever their pet anthem is played "some one, somewhere, butts in." "Somewhere" was defined as "in the direction of the Eiffel Tower in Paris." The newspapers then chorused that playing the anthem is not a violation of the Treaty of Versailles and that Germans are entitled to play it as much as they like...
Score, Brown 1927 22, Harvard 1927 11. Goals from the floor, Hesse 2, Lightbourn, Leekley, McCrum, Tsukuno 4, Broda 4, Good, Mishel. Goals from fouls, Good, Mishel, Leekley. Refaree Tower...