Word: tower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hulking, ham-fisted persons who now & then take George V's crown & sceptre from the Tower of London and always put them back are unofficially "Beefeaters," officially the Yeomen of the Guard...
...their scarlet, gold-laced uniforms last week the Beefeaters carefully removed from the Tower not only the crown and the sceptre but a whole shop windowful of diamond-studded ornaments. Piling into motorcars they took these to St. James's Palace, guarded them during the night...
...sound of bells from no direction that one could fix filled and emptied the air, now eerily fading, now resurging like a seashell's roar, brassily clanging, diminishing, mellowing into silver chimes. It was the University of Chicago's first carillon concert. In the 200-ft. tower of the chapel, Carilloneur Kamiel Lefévere, humped on his bench, was striking with clenched fists the keys of a huge 72-note instrument, the second that John Davison Rockefeller has given in memory of his mother Laura Spelman Rockefeller, who liked bells. The stone tower seemed to shake...
...great bell in the mouldy tower bongs and time marches on. What are they going to do with the scared walls? They impede the course of Freshmen who make last minute dashes for the New Lecture Hall for History 1 lectures, not enough light enters the old windows to make it adequate for a good examination room. The janitor will not allow people to wander over the building because he fears they may be careless enough to let some stray cigarette ash fall on her floors and set her in flame, but a moment of grace is granted for viewing...
Harvard Square traffic difficulties are soon to be relieved by a new plan that has been offered by the Cambridge Committee on Traffic Problems. The system proposed will not do away with the Boston Elevated rotunda in the center of the Square. A traffic signal tower is to be placed close to the rotunda, with individual signals on the adjacent corners, to aid the problem of the crosswalk...