Word: towers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acres of undeveloped park land on Jamaica Bay, the erection of buildings with 5,000,000 square feet of floor space for exhibits by the U. S. and 46 foreign governments, a stadium to hold 200,000 people, parking space for 100,000 automobiles, the highest tower in the world topped by a beacon that could be seen 500 miles away, an attendance of 100,000,000 in six months, and the same number of dollars in expenditure...
...ears of the listeners. It must be remembered that this is the largest carillon in the world- the greatest volume of sound ever sent forth from bells. The Antwerp carillon, although much smaller, is at a height of 270 feet, and these bells should be in a tower at least 300 feet high to get the best music...
...Henry Seiff, Boston Latin School; Samuel Schwartz, Boston Latin School; Henry Simon, Boston Latin School; Frank Kent Smith, Exeter; Paul Sidney Edward Smith, Exeter; Russell Murdock Stobbs, Exeter; Franz Theodore Stone, Exeter; Alexander Law Stott, Boston Latin School; Randall Edwin Stratton, Exeter; Thompson Tyler Sweeny, Jr., Exeter; Walter Sheldon Tower, Jr., Columbia High School, South Orange, N. J.; Albert Chester Travis, Jr., Exeter; William Perkins Wadsworth, St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H.; John Comstock Weeks, Boston Latin School...
...Oswald Tower of Andover, a member of the Joint Basketball Rules Committee, will referee the game and may stop the play at any time to explain a new interpretation of the rules. He and Coach Edward Wachter will speak between the periods. The game will be open to the public...
Those two bulwarks of education in the East, the Universities of Yale and of Harvard, have furnished grist for many a generality. Harvard men, whose impression of Yale may have been limited to a distorted glimpse of Harkness Tower as beheld from a motor car on the way to the Yale Bowl, are usually quite ready to proffer their opinions of Yale's scholastic, athletic and social systems; Yale men not infrequently subject the "red bellies" of Harvard to a voluble and humorous dissection. Last week a Yale man and a Harvard man published their views of their respective...