Word: towered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...above them, the Tera River, swollen by a fortnight of rain, was held in check by a stone and concrete dam built two years ago. The only explanation of the now deafening thunder was that the dam had burst. Electrician Rey scrambled up the church tower, began ringing the bell in alarm. Father Plácido started waking his neighbors. Some few fled with him across the only bridge and climbed the opposite hillside. Others raced to the church tower or to high ground...
Among the many delights of the Reading Period, certainly none is more welcome than the Sunday serenade from the Lowell Bell Tower. Although these concerts provide, week in and week out, the greatest source of pleasure to the music-loving public in Cambridge, they seem particularly enjoyable at this otherwise bleak season of the year. One always fears that the pressures of studying may dampen the bell-ringers' wonted enthusiasm, and their devoted following was relieved by yesterday's unusually outstanding concert...
...under the edge of the Arctic icecap in 1931 was cool enough to chill spines in 1958. A converted U.S. Navy sub, Wilkins' Nautilus had portholes, searchlights, a tusklike bowsprit "feeler," and sled runners above the deck for sliding along the bellies of ice fields. Above the conning tower was a device for cutting through the ice, so that Sir Hubert could open the hatch at the Pole and pop out on top of the world. Leaky, her propellers serrated by chunks of ice, the ship turned back, and a relieved world smiled. But last summer, when the nuclear...
This opera is the one set in the Tower of London, where Colonel Fairfax, the handsome hero, almost loses his head, and Jack Point, the jester, loses his girl instead. A flirtatious soubrette, a formidable contralto, and a Head Jailer and Assistant Tormentor are also on the premises...
From Building and Grounds grasscutters to professors, everybody consulted the Mem Hall clock tower, and it was a matter of principle that its time was Harvard's time; examinations, faculty meetings, classes and parietal rules ran their course by its decree...