Word: tower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wotje, 31 miles long, a cluster of 60 wooded islands, has important runways, hangars, a radio tower, docks for small ships...
...turret gunner fired directly into the conning tower of the sub, killing its anti-aircraft gunners. The bombardier released his depth charges, which straddled the sub, sinking it in half a minute. The survivors, stunned by the swift attack, were picked up later by a destroyer...
...Teutonic Tower. In a by-line story distributed by North American Newspaper Alliance, Brita gave a chatty, uninhibited view of the electronic Tower of Babel which pumps Nazi propaganda all over the world...
...Pearl Harbor when a black submarine slides in past the green flatlands, past Ford Island and the gaunt wreckage of the Oklahoma and warps into a slip at the Submarine Base. On her conning tower is painted the score of her cruise: a column of rising suns. A Navy band tootles a greeting. Lashed to her periscope is a broom, symbol of a clean sweep in enemy waters...
...Hall is now a relic neither loved nor hated by the students. Its fantastic Gothic architecture, combining a red and blue slate roof with a monstrous green clock tower, no longer appeals to the aesthetic taste of the twentieth century. To the unsuspecting Freshman it looms up on his first day as an artistic night-mare. Since the commons was discontinued in 1924, the tremendous nave is used only for registration, examinations, and Commencement. At these times the few remaining busts may be seen unreverently adorned with hats of modern style. Many debate the feasibility of junking the collossal structure...