Word: tower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...further complication is found, particularly in the neighborhood of Lake Atitian, a mountain lake surrounded by peaks which tower 2500 feet above it Here live relief species of birds not found in the rest of the country, and Griscom reports a species of "grebe" or "hell diver" found nowhere else in the world. He searched, also, for nine days in order to find a peculiar genus of fly catcher, of which only two other specimens are known to exist in the world's museums. Here, too, he not only found this bird but rediscovered another species of fly catcher...
...persecution, but by indifference. In the most unchurched of educated communities in an increasingly unchurchlike world, Dr. Fosdick has caused to be raised on the banks of the magnificent Hudson a magnificent church. To voice its presence to surrounding multitudes John Davison Rockefeller Jr. has set in its tower 72 bells, world's largest and heaviest carillon. (The Park Avenue Baptist, predecessor of Riverside Church, had only 53.) Their invitation Dr. Fosdick expressed in a great exordium...
Intended to hang in the tower of Lowell House, the carillon is a set of very valuable Russian bells of bronze, weighing 25 tons. Authorities expect to put them in place by October...
...vast host of students who make up my unseen audience will want an explanation for my long and continued silence. There have been several reasons why I couldn't oblige you and my publishers with my works of erudition. In the first place my Sanctum in Lowell House tower of late has been far from the haven of peace I hoped it would be. Recently rumblings of a high table reached my attentive ears. I followed up this matter in the hope that I might pass on to you something of value. I was thwarted, not through lack of vigilance...
This afternoon, however, I roused myself from bed, I get little sleep at night now what with Lowell House revelers welcoming the dawn, and book himself down the tower ladder, all beautifully set about with orange lights, and made my way to the court yard. After basking in the sunlight for a moment, I made my way about the Yard, which is grievously changed these days. I find, after careful research that tomorrow there will appear at Sever 11 at 2 o'clock Mr. Harry Irvine the actor. He will talk on an undetermined subject. He has played...