Word: tower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...able spring-legged reporter when he puts himself to it; he scooped everyone on President Truman's abortive plan to send Chief Justice Vinson to Moscow. Like Henning, Trohan believes in the infallibility of Colonel McCormick. Says he: "When the Colonel sneezes, the walls reverberate throughout the Tribune Tower, and even here in the bureau. But the Colonel pays for the reverberations...
...mountain stream and rock has its legend, worthy of the poet's pen or painter's pencil . . . And in looking over the uncultivated scene, the mind may travel far into futurity. Where the wolf roams, the plow shall glisten; on the grey crag shall rise temple and tower...
Harvard "no longer is an ivory tower for proper Bostonians" says Cleveland Amory '39 in the February issue of Holiday Magazine which attempts to tell the outside world about the University...
...Whorf has also done some or all of the directing and here his fast tempo has been put to better use. Most of the action takes place in the Tower of London and a single set and part of the orchestra is used. The scenes flow rapidly one into the other by use of lights, rather than curtains and there is seldom a moment, without visual activity. When Richard is soliloquizing on his villainy, there is a red light, presumably from Hell, shining upon him. During the battle scene, which is done all in silhouette and with imaginary weapons...
Ready Answer. The rest of the industry had a ready answer to the President's challenge. Walter S. Tower, president of the American Iron & Steel Institute, gave it. In 1948, said he, the industry had added 1,800,000 net tons of capacity. This year and next it will add 2,700,000 tons more and its total expansion bill will come to $2 billion...