Word: tower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris, they tell the story of the man who fall off the Eiffel tower. As he passed the platform halfway down, an observer heard him mutter. "Well, I'm all right so far." So it is with skijumping, anybody can still sail through the air; it's when you hit the ground that you have to start worrying...
...wife (a sculptor) and three aides, called for a tree-dotted, 80-acre area around the arch with two museums, an open-air theater, a tea terrace, a frontier village and five sculptural monuments. The arch itself, said proud St. Louisans, would mark their city like the Eiffel Tower or the Washington Monument...
...weeks during the winter's record-breaking snowfalls, young ladies from the sequestered halls of Munger to the friendlier chambers of Tower all held high hopes for warm times in the midst of frigid surroundings...
...raise money for materials Ye painted oil and watercolor portraits of G.I.s. "Some of them gave me their shoes," he says, "which brought in much money." A U.S. Army chaplain .helped him get some secondhand tin for his church roof. When the church tower is finished, Ye plans to put a tablet over the entrance proclaiming that, as the ravens fed Elijah, so "the G.I.s from beyond the Pacific fed God's prophet and helped to build God's church...
Lamont Library engineers yesterday offered an explanation for the mysterious 95-foot tower that has sprouted in front of the construction...