Word: tower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard without ever having formed lasting personal relationships with members of the Faculty. An increased mingling of teachers and students, the Committee felt, would not only be an intellectual stimulus to the undergraduates, but would also serve to keep the older men from climbing too high into the very tower. One of its main criticisms of the present tutorial system was that many in the lower ranks of the Faculty are more concerned about tenure and promotion than they are about teaching individual...
...cast, and here the Cambridge Players are the makers of an enjoyable production. Cobra Wither spoon as guest star and leading lady takes her part in easy and capable stride, that puts and audience at case and draws the best out of the supporting cast. Jack Sheehan, Allan Tower, Louise Kanasireff, and actor-director Robert Perry match her with professional experience and smoothness. Also, there is the usual and pleasant sprinkling of handsome young actors and beautiful young actresses that have come to be a welcome characteristic of the summer stage. Of the latter category, Richard Barthelmess' daughter Mary...
From the top of its ornate concrete tower, familiar to the oarsmen constantly rowing below, to the mile of heat and service tunnels running under its dozen buildings, Perkins Institution for the Blind is quiet and country-like, little resembling its early self in the heart of South Boston. The first school of its kind in the country, it was conceived by Dr. John P. Fisher, who, tradition says, buttonholed an unfamiliar but handsome and able - looking young man on Boylston Street one day, and made him the first director on the spot. He was Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, whose...
...schools that now includes some of the finest and most famed in the U.S.-Winnetka's North Shore Country Day, New York's Horace Mann, Philadelphia's Friends Central, St. Louis' Country Day and John Burroughs, Cambridge's Browne & Nichols, Wilmington's Tower Hill, Brooklyn's Polytech...
...Axis sub crippled a rickety, old armed U.S. freighter, loosed a parachute flare to illuminate the scene. A contrary wind caught the chute, pushed it back over the sub, shed sufficient light for a carrot-topped Navy gunner on the ship to pound three shells into its conning tower. Survivors insisted that the raider went down with all hands...