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Word: tower (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recounting the important contributions of universities to the life of their times in the past, President Conant declared that "the idea that a university is some kind of an ivory tower seems to me a pure myth that has grown up only in recent times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Asks Freedom Of Discussion, Inquiry for U. S. Universities | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...Cantabridgians who have puzzled over Mem Hall's wartime nudity can now rest assured that the situation is only temporary. University work crews will soon start reconstruction work which eventually should place slate, copper, and ironwork decorations back in their old positions atop the tower...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gingerbread Will Go Back on Mem Tower | 4/22/1947 | See Source »

...attempt to come closer to the original architects' design than the final pre-war agglomeration of metalwork, corner pinnacles, small dormer windows above the clock faces, and various gewgaws which were added in 1897 will probably not go back on the tower...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gingerbread Will Go Back on Mem Tower | 4/22/1947 | See Source »

This was José de la Luz Vegas' big moment-made keener by the Holy Week of silence his bells had just ended. José has been a happy man from the day when the cathedral priests, noticing how he hung around the towers, appointed him chief bellringer. He promptly quit his obnoxious little job as a printer and moved into a tiny stone room high up in the cathedral's east tower. There he installed a little stove, a rickety brass bed, an altar decorated with winged cherubs. There he has lived ever since, among the pigeons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The Bellringer | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...into the Zócalo (the city's chief square) looking for assistants. If there are no idlers about, he calls on his friends the trolley-car motormen, who not infrequently abandon their cars in mid-street, at the height of the rush hour, and climb into the tower to man the bell ropes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The Bellringer | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

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