Word: tower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Once they had all the blocks erected into a magnificently lofty column. For a moment they stood aside and admired their handiwork, and then Johnnie said impatiently, "Oh, let's knock it down! I don't like it. I want another pile." So, with mirthful glee they destroyed their tower and built another...
...week has passed since the first Eli finally made his top spin under the shadows of Harkness Tower. And the Vagabond will celebrate the springtide in a more Epicurean spirit by going to the Fogg Museum to hear Dr. Spencer's talk on "Emotion in Fourteenth Century Art," at four this afternoon...
Speakers for the last half of the year were announced yesterday by the classical club, which is going to have a series of meetings open to members of the University in addition to their club meetings. The first lecture will be given tonight in the Lowell House Tower by Dr. Jean Pelseneer, of the University of Brussels, in France, who will talk on "La France Hellen...
This evening at 7 o'clock in the Lowell House Tower Room there will be a gathering for the purpose of singing German songs. Any members of the University who may be interested are invited to attend. J. M. Hawkes '26, who has had experience in such singing at the universities of Marburg and Munchen, will accompany on the piano. Hawkes emphasized the fact that the gathering is not for the purpose of practicing, but rather for wholesome enjoyment in the songs...
...Fifth Avenue front of the entire block is taken up by a graceful, perfectly oval 14-story building. It will contain ladies' shops, a banking floor, showrooms, a roof garden restaurant. Directly behind it the bleak, jagged slab of a 68-story tower shoots 675 ft. up into the air. Unadorned with radiator caps, Renaissance lanterns or mooring masts, it will be lower than either the Chrysler or Empire State buildings, will contain more useful space than either. Here will be the radio offices, 27 studios for broadcasting and television (which radio officials confidently expect to be commercially practicable...