Word: tower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tribune Tower Colonel...
Behind locked doors Harvard's "Verein Turmwaechter" lost its collective German accent in the excitement of being imprisoned in Lowell House Tower Room for nearly an hour last Wednesday night. A hook and ladder was summoned from the Fire Department, but its efforts were superfluous as the janitor of the building finally succeeded in battering down the hinges and removing the door...
...prankster took advantage of the confusion and noise that resulted from the singing of German folksongs to insert a nail in the lock of the door, thus jamming it. The unfortunate victims, alarmed at the prospect of spending a night in the Tower, frantically summoned the firemen in the hopes that a ladder would extricate them from their embarrassment...
When the reaction comes (and it is later than you think) the figures of those few lonely, fearless men such as Lindbergh will tower as far above those of their slimy defamers as a giant sequoia towers above the bedraggled weeds at its base...
...conduct during the strike the brotherhoods issued a precise, workmanlike set of rules, the sort of rules that come natural to men who are used to starting their run. at 1:17 a.m.. passing a water tower at 2:13 a.m., pulling on to a siding so that a fast passenger train can pass at 3:04 p.m. Men on their runs at 6 a.m. would deliver their trains to terminals before going on strike; members would stay away from railroad property, avoid all violence; roll would be called twice a day in local strike headquarters; no striker could...