Word: towers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...main body of the tower which rests like a tank on the pavilion, is surmounted a steeple inspired by that of the Park Street Church in Boston. The Park Street steeple has been much and justly admired: but it is difficult to see why it should stand on this tower or why the tower should be so extraordinarily mounted and placed with regard to the body of the church. As already suggested, the plan is probably only tentative. If it isn't it ought to be, in the interest of Harvard's esthetic future...
...university will be host at a luncheon at which the royal party and representatives of the Faculty will be guests, and to which Governor Trumbull and Mayor Tower have been invited. The Prince will visit the Yale Bowl, the baseball and track fields and the Laphan club-house. This is through an expressed interest in athletics. He was chairman of the Swedish Olympic Committee and has himself won many athletic titles in European competition...
...around the armholes. It was a one-piece suit with the pretense of a short skirt. The trunks came down almost to her knees. Her legs that day were vague. Some reports have her wearing stockings, others none. Her followers-those that pray night and day in the Prayer Tower of her Angelus Temple, those who have seen her in her white nurse's uniform exhorting them, those who have heard her over her KFSG radio station-have been hunting for her incessantly. Most believe her drowned, have crowded to the ocean front off Los Angeles to pray, knees...
During the 290 years of its existence Harvard has stood a tower of conservative liberalism. Liberalism in thought education, politics, religion. Not for nothing was the Reverend John Harvard, whose bequest in 1638 of his library and half his estate won him, the posthumous Loner of godfather to the infant school a nonconformist and an emigrant from the intolerance of the homeland. Battles there were, to be sure, stern doctrinary struggles such as the attempt under the presidency of the Reveread Increase Mather to bind down the college with the dour tenets of Calvinism. But liberalism always triumphed somehow...
...pigeons arrived in Washington two days later, a second followed. A third flew into a wire en route, was injured, will recover. The fourth flew against the tower of a Methodist church in Virginia near the Capitol: "Dead in the line of duty...