Word: tower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left face of the capital, Elizabeth, accompanied by a handmaiden or possibly a youth, is represented. On the right face, a genre scene representing the life about a mediaeval church is carved. The bell-ringer is hard at work pulling the cord of the bell under the tower. However, the bell-rope seems not to be attached to any bell, but rather to the hair of a demon perched on the summit of the tower. A cowled personage is seated beside the demon on the roof holding what may be a tile in his hands, while over his shoulder appears...
...Black Tower tries to frighten you with the antics of a maniacal physician who has a gallery full of corpses, mummified and glace-coated, to which he wishes to add a young girl he has picked up. And fails. Co-author is Lora Baxter, who appeared last week in The Animal Kingdom (see above...
...situated in an enclosed room. Cold air will be blown into this room, heated by the radiator, and then distributed to all parts of the chapel by a large number of branching pipes. The draught will be forced by a huge exhaust fan, which has been placed in the tower and will draw the air up through the building and out through the tower. There is also a smaller radiator in another enclosed room, under the choir, for use in heating that part of the building when it is unnecessary to heat the nave. The exhaust fan in the tower...
...would still be floating. In other words we have a brick which is light, one-fifth the weight of an ordinary brick, of high heat-insulating quality, porous, yet resistant to the entrance of water, and of a crushing strength sufficient to support its weight if built into a tower five times the height [1,250 ft.] of the Empire State Building...
Score--M. I. T. 14, Harvard 12. Goals--Feustel 2, O'Brien 2, Edmond 2; Hageman 2, Baskervill 2, Reisner. Fouls--Feustel, Sysko; Baskervill, Matursevitch. Referee--Tower. Umpire--McDonald. Time--Two 20-minute periods...