Word: towered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leverett House began an experiment yesterday to lessen a reported $38,000 electric light bill caused by spotlights in the Tower windows. Members of the House maintenance crew unscrewed 198 150-watt light bulbs in the windows of one Tower wall and substituted 75-watt bulbs...
...Tobin always appears on them. A specialist in statistical analysis of economic forces, he is essentially a "scientific" economist with no strong political attachments. When Kennedy asked him to serve on CEA, Tobin said: "Mr. President, you must have the wrong man. I'm a sort of ivory-tower economist." Replied Kennedy: "That's all right. I'm a sort of ivory-tower President...
KERMIT GORDON, 45, Rhodes scholar, professor of economics at Williams College, lately on leave to the Ford Foundation. Less of an ivory-tower economist than Tobin, Gordon is a strong believer in softening economic conflicts by means of compromise...
Stumbling ashore on Damas Cays, Rafael found a rusty, tumbledown radio tower, apparently a World War II leftover. He slept awhile, then began to build a raft of several large pieces of driftwood, which he tied together with some rusty electrical wire he found. On his third day on the island, the waves washed up a rusty but seaworthy 50-gallon drum. Placing the drum in the open center of his 6-ft. by 8-ft. raft, Rafael lashed it loosely with loops of wire so that it would not float off and left himself some slack wire to serve...
...criticized Sarah Lawrence girls for living in an ivory tower in many ways." Although the educational system offers them the opportunity to develop their individual talents, she explained, "they can excuse not doing their reading if they can come up with a whopping good personal problem...