Word: tower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twice, girls, is too much. Henceforth, we shall turn our backs on the world which held much hope and take our waiting niche in the ivory tower...
Colonel Robert Rutherford ("Bertie") McCormick is a farsighted-often a gloomily farsighted-man. Last month he set aside the Chicago Tribune Tower's lowest sub-basement as an atom-bomb shelter (TIME, Oct. 6). Last week he announced that he would stock the (future) dugout with a little (future) mild refreshment. He assured the 3,000 Tower employees that the refuge would be "equipped [for us] to live there 24 hours. . . ." Among its provisions: "an adequate supply of canned pineapple . . . the best remedy for radium burns is pineapple juice...
...steelmen, who are blamed by the railmen for the failure of the building program, pointed a finger at the car builders. Walter Sheldon Tower, head of the American Iron & Steel Institute, said that steelmakers had, by Government figures, supplied carmakers with enough steel to build 26,950 cars in June, July and August-5,950 more than the program figure. But production for domestic use in those months totaled only...
...Tower Duty. Eventually, Sir Osbert persuaded his father to let him give up horsemanship; he entered the Grenadier Guards. Great Morning is dedicated to one of Sir Osbert's friends and contemporaries in the Guards, then "a charming and elegant young man," now Field Marshal Viscount Alexander of Tunis (and Canada's Governor General). Most of his other Guardsman friends were dead before 1916. Happily stationed in London, resplendently uniformed and detailed to duty at the romantic Tower or at Buckingham Palace, young Sitwell in his free evenings discovered the world of fashion. Heady excitements were...
Every year some New England college eleven gets touted as a tower in national football and local sports writers start turning the wheels of "Bowl Fever." But just as regularly, some average squad from the West or South invades this citadel of Yankee gridiron prowess and promptly the walls come tumbling down...