Word: tower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only those nations will be visited which have achieved the highest development of the new forms--Germany, Scandinavia, Russia, Holland, England, Poland, Belgium and France. Listed among the special stops are Westminster Cathedral and London Tower, the Kremlin, and the Paris 1937 Exposition...
...Hayes, rector of Rome's North American College, interpreting. To Pius XI, Mr. Smith offered a ten-inch gold model of the Empire State Building, volunteering the dimensions of his skyscraper when the Holy Father confessed that he had never ascended a structure higher than the Eiffel Tower. The Pope presented a silver-framed pastel of himself autographed "Toto corde benedicens,"- a pearl rosary and a relic of the Little Flower to Mrs. Smith, and a Good Shepherd medal to both...
...placed near two fine Gainsboroughs and a portrait by Copley, yet it attracts much attention. The painting shows a most inviting scene, a well bred family party on their lawn by the river at twilight. As they look over a smooth bowling green towards some woods and a castle tower in the distance with the high evening sky above them, there is a sense of peace and comfort which pervades...
...mixup with the verein Turmaechter over use of the Lowell House Tower Room tonight has caused the instrumentalists to postpone their beer party until tomorrow evening...
...Church Institute when newsboys ran past shouting the terrible news that the White Star Liner Titanic, largest ship afloat, had sunk with 1,513 passengers after hitting an iceberg on her maiden voyage. Year later on the same day the completed building was dedicated and the 200-ft. tower atop its 13 floors was named the Titanic Lighthouse Tower. Last week, on the twenty-fifth April 15 since the disaster, while foghorns mooed mournfully in the harbor below, three white-surpliced ministers observed the annual custom of placing a wreath at the foot of the Institute's time-ball...