Word: tower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were killed rioting, Warden Clarence A. Larkin of California's toughest State prison, was last fortnight interviewing inmates about parole applications. Suddenly seven of some 40 convicts in his office sprang out of line, bared knives and a dummy pistol. One demanded that Warden Larkin telephone the watch tower guards to hand down rifles to the inmates. Others covered two guards. In a room nearby, the warden's secretary, Jack Whalen, heard the commotion, recalled what Warden Larkin had told the prison staff: "If I am ever kidnapped and I order you not to shoot and you obey...
...Manhattan's Rockefeller-built Riverside Church, whose 20-ton bass bell is the largest tuned bell extant.* Others: the 72 bells of the University of Chicago Chapel; the Baird Carillon at the University of Michigan; the Bok Carillon in Mountain Lake, Fla.; the 53 bells of the Peace Tower of Canada's Parliament Building in Ottawa. Last week small Alfred University in Alfred, N. Y. inaugurated a carillon of 35 bells which it claimed was the oldest in North America...
...another famed bellman, Van den Gheyn of Malines. The 35 assorted bells were assembled and tuned-by scraping metal from the lower "lip" and the inner surface-by Jef Denyn, director of the Belgian National School of the Carillon. The carillon, housed temporarily in a wooden tower on the Alfred campus, was played publicly for the first time last week by Henry S. Wesson of Navasota, Tex., a carillonneur who studied with Director Denyn and, as U. S. representative of Michaux & Michaels, installed a carillon they cast for the Belgian Village at the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition...
...with accommodations for 592 prisoners, each in a private cell. The cells will be so arranged that any inmate who chisels his way out will find himself in either the next cell or a corridor. Between each prisoner and freedom will be a dozen locks, electrically controlled from a tower on the wall of the main circle. Gates of each unit will be so adjusted that no two can be open simultaneously. The whole structure will be enclosed by a circular tool resistant 12-ft. wire mesh fence. Cost of Pennsylvania's Mt. Gretna will...
...Clinic has 15 floors, a carillon tower and imposing bronze doors. On the third floor is the room of the Board of Governors. Covering all the walls of that room are framed Mayo diplomas, certificates, awards and knighthoods conferred by governments and learned societies. Outside in a glass showcase are their many academic robes. Their favorites are the red ones of the University of Manchester, England...