Word: tower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ludwig Beethoven and the Chiming Tower Bells- Opal Wheeler...
Dying Weather. Mountains, mottled green, yellow, red and grey, tower thousands of feet into the air, drop precipitously into the emerald green Salween, called by the natives Wu-ti Ho, the River without a Bottom. In the jungles with the Chinese were leopards and tigers, pythons that swallowed whole live hogs, monkeys that stole soldiers' food, wolves that howled at night and tried to steal dead soldiers. In the river, said the natives, were little fish with hides thicker than leather; bigger, leather-skinned.fish whose mouths opened and shut like folding doors. Some of the natives, ceremoniously neutral, stalked...
...Folts, head of the Production Organization and Engineering Department, summarized the evolution of the case system when he compared the case method to a "completely dynamic, always improving" business. "It may eventually lead to visualization and pictorial dramatization," he concluded. The case method because it helps companies, ivory tower and the office, is growing in all directions. Along with the introduction of movies into the class rooms, the increased use of the case method promises to be the teaching technique of the future...
...last day we saw the ruins of Tobruk. The main church is badly damaged but three bells in the tower still ring. Every Tommy who enters yanks the ropes...
...primary tower of strength is Captain Johnny Paine, who has held every job on the ice except referee. Originally a wing, the ubiquitous captain was switched to defense last winter to boister a sagging defense, but he will probably operate from a front line post this year...