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Word: towered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million, rushed two to replace a wood pier that burned at Whittier, Alaska, threatening military supply lines, two more to New port News, Va., when it turned out that no docks were big enough for the Navy's 60,000-ton supercarriers. Another job: the first "Texas Tower" radar island, no miles off Cape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Islands to Order | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

Love and the law: those are the story's opposed forces, and much of their contention centers around Brocton's old courthouse, its pillared cupola flanked by great trees, its tolling tower bell pacing life in the town. In the gallery of lawyers serving beneath the bell, the outstanding figure is Noah Tuttle, Winner's senior partner, a doughty old lion of the law in his white-maned 80s, crotchety, plainspoken, a portable archive of torts, statutes and the cumulative wisdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hermit of Lambertville | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...should be sent to the Tower," said a Tory group from the town of Altrincham, whose name the young peer bears. "A very silly man," said the Archbishop of Canterbury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Peer & His Peers | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

Another youthful New York composer with a gift for vocal writing, Marvin Levy, 25, had his latest opera premiered at the Santa Fe Opera's amphitheater (TIME, July 15). Composer Levy's work, a one-acter entitled The Tower, tells how King Solomon imprisons his daughter after a prophet predicts she will marry the poorest man in the kingdom. Joash, dead-broke, is thrown into the same prison, promptly marries the princess, and in the end is accepted by his father-in-law and decked in royal robes. The score, as frothy as the libretto, played heavily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Death in the Afternoon | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

BRIGHT RED SKYSCRAPER will be built in midtown Manhattan on site of Carnegie Hall. Real-Estate Man Louis J. Glickman, who bought Carnegie Hall for $5,000,000, will raze famed music center, start construction in 1959 of $22 million 44-story office tower to be faced with red-porcelain-covered steel panels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TIME CLOCK, Aug. 12, 1957 | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

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