Word: tower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taken over by weary retreating troops. In the white-tiled kitchen of the Hotel Cathay the manager argued hopelessly against this intrusion. The soldiers clumped past him in full field equipment, gazed in fascination at the twinkling lights of push-button elevators, and mounted their machine guns in the Tower Room overlooking the Whangpoo River...
...entries, all seniors, will huddle, shivering, along the starting line at the foot of Tower Court hill. They will be attired in caps and gowns, the latter rolled up to permit sprinting. Each girl will have a hoop...
Grounders were bouncing off gloves like bric-a-brac off the Eliot House tower. Pop flies were acting like coy Annex sophomores. The freshmen couldn't get their hands on anything...
...Chicago's Michigan Avenue last week, a little band of pickets paced wearily back & forth in front of the Gothic tower of the Tribune. Red and black letters on their white canvas placards told the now familiar story: "On Strike Against the Chicago Tribune." But after 17 months, the printers seemed as far as ever from winning the strike against the Trib and Chicago's four other major dailies...
...then as the institution's secretary, got the idea that the weather on earth also reflects what is happening on the sun. Since his retirement in 1944, he has worked as a research associate in an eleventh-floor retreat in the Smithsonian's 102-year-old tower, which was reclaimed from bats and owls to give him working quarters...