Word: tower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old St. Clement Danes Church, which lies like an island surrounded by the traffic of the Strand, only the walls and tower still stand. Of St. Clement's eleven bells, six have been destroyed. A month after the blitzing of St. Clement's last spring, its vicar, the Rev. Mr. William Pennington-Bickford, died-of a broken heart, his parishioners said. Last week his widow was buried beside him. She had jumped to her death from an attic window after telling her cook: "I prayed every night that God might take...
Newsman Petroff told of one Captain Voitsekovsky, who seemed sure to become Russian legend. Captain Voitsekovsky was using a church tower as an advanced observation post and had there rigged up a field telephone. Suddenly he was surprised by a German tank attack. The Captain phoned the nearest Russian artillery batteries: "Fire at me. In the church bell tower. The square is full of German tanks. Farewell, comrades!" It was the end of Captain Voitsekovsky...
...half the life in The Wookey comes from Edmund Gwenn, an actor with a capacity for making mediocre parts seem masterpieces of playwriting. In the cinema Foreign Correspondent, as an eerie minor villain who tried to push hero Joel McCrea off a tall tower, in The Earl of Chicago as a gentleman's gentleman who looked after gangster Robert Montgomery, he stole whole scenes from the principals. But as Mr. Wookey he steals nothing; the play is handed to him and he runs away with...
Harvard has defied all its traditions as a cloistered ivy tower in its multifold reactions to the war during the past two years...
Vermont's mountain winds were harnessed last week to generate electricity for its homes and factories. Slowly, like the movements of an awakening giant, two stainless-steel vanes-the size and shape of a bomber's wings-began to rotate on their 100-ft. tower atop bleak Grandpa's Knob (2,000 ft.) near Rutland. Soon the 75-ton rotating unit will begin generating 1,350 horsepower or 1,000 kilowatts-enough electricity to light 2,000 homes. Wholly automatic, with its performance recorded by frequent photographs of its dial board, it will produce current about...