Word: towered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even a fire could not stop Anita Racioppi from winning the 61st annual senior Hoop Race at Wellesley early Saturday morning. With a Fathers Day crowd of 1,000 watching, Anita swept down Tower Court Hill ahead of 200 classmates, all attired in caps and gowns. She is president of the Student Athletic Association...
...This would suggest that we are dealing with a temple constructed for the soul, not for the body. However, arch indentations do appear at sea-level, but these are entirely inaccessible unless the student is an apt swimmer, or comes prepared with waterwings; for a moat encircles our ivory tower. Here surely is the function carried out. As for the most itself, its purpose is at present rather recondite. Possibly a return to the feudal system is desired. But then, the question arises as to whether President Killian would be comfortable, and, accessible, atop his coal-black charger, girdled...
...rummy games. To help predict the blast effects of each atomic explosion, World War II Navy depth charges containing 2,400 Ibs. of TNT are exploded two hours and one hour before zero hour. In the morning, when Graves gives the order, eight scientists ride an elevator up the tower to the device cabin to arm the explosive device. They report each move by telephone to Graves in the command post. A checklist of from three to eight pages long is read aloud in the 20 minutes it takes to get the device ready-and the eight men can ride...
...steep winding road to one of the fort's seven iron-spiked gateways, wide enough for two elephants to pass abreast. Here he ceremoniously applied the vermilion-tinted rice dust to the forehead of the leading Lohar, while the Indian flag was raised on a 120-ft. marble tower erected to commemorate a Rajput victory in the 15th century. "Brothers, come on. Let us enter our fort," cried Nehru...
...teamwork the watchword among his young faculty. "The age of theological geniuses is past for a while," says the Rev. Dr. Brauer. "People like Niebuhr and Tillich do not appear in every generation, and no longer is any theological school going to have its predominance through giant men who tower over the others . . . There may be another Reinie Niebuhr hiding under a barrel somewhere, but I doubt...