Word: tower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cooling breeze rustled through the tents and the dusty town. At midnight Private Bertucci climbed a tower, relieved the guard. Below him lay the silent tent-city whose occupants, next morning, would be out in the fields, thinning beets...
G.I.s visiting Paris want to see the Eiffel Tower, the Folies Bergere, and Pablo Picasso. Their interest in art gen erally and Picasso in particular has astonished art dealers, Artist Picasso and the Red Cross, which handles their enter tainment requests...
...largely donated by the Rockefellers), and is one of Manhattan's sightseeing land marks. Fosdick's Sunday morning sermons, delivered from a marble pulpit, attracted capacity (2,500) congregations. Millions more heard his Sunday afternoon sermons, broadcast over a national hookup from his 18th-floor tower study. He received 125,000 letters a year from his radio talks alone. Meanwhile, he continued to teach at Union Theological Seminary, continued to turn out popular books (A Guide to Understanding the Bible, On Being a Real Person...
...mile). Such superlatives are characteristic of St. John's, which when finished will be the world's second biggest church (bigger: St. Peter's in the Vatican), and the biggest of Gothic design. Still to come (see cuts): the upper half of two west towers, one more transept, and part of another, a great (402 ft.) central tower...
...wholesale grocery business, which a few years ago was being rapidly encroached upon by chain stores, this process has been productive. It now supports his apartment overlooking Lake Michigan from the 21st floor of the Drake Tower Apartments - with semicircular modern couches, a glass-enclosed "garden," a dining room lighted from a cylinder under its glass-topped table...