Word: towers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come to think of himself as a native Muscovite. He was not a sentimental man; he would not cry over the white city's antiquities, Imperial Russia's Golden Head, the 40-times-40 spires. But he would brood if anything happened to the parachute tower in the Park of Culture and Rest. He would be angry when the new buildings, neither garishly cubist nor grotesquely baroque because he personally had censored the architects' renderings, were bombed. He, for whom the beautiful miniature locomotive at the Technical Institute was named, would be alarmed if the ten great...
From a new orange and white steel tower, 410 feet high and clean-cut as a Sheeler painting, Columbia Broadcasting System's WABC, without any increase in power, last week made itself heard with doubled intensity over a large section of the Eastern seaboard...
Secret of the new intensity: the 182-ton steel tower of the transmitter rests on four porcelain insulators set on concrete pedestals on an island poured between a few rocks in Long Island Sound off New Rochelle, N.Y. (TIME, Sept. 2, 1940), and is completely surrounded by salt water, the ideal "surround" for radio projection...
From New York Jack Durrance* and Merrill McLane, ace Dartmouth College mountain climbers, started for Wyoming by airplane. Durrance said that he had scaled the Tower in 1936, thought he could do it again. With Paul Petzoldt, a veteran of Himalayan climbs, and five other men, Durrance and McLane inched their way up the Tower's sides, driving iron spikes ("pitons") into its hard, sheer sides to make a ladder. They reached the summit, roped little George Hopkins into the middle of their column, and carefully edged their way back down again. Safe on the ground, Hopkins drew...
...most pious demeanor in his repertoire, journeyed to sooty Liverpool and laid the cornerstone of the Church of England's vastest fabric. Designed by great Roman Catholic Gothicist Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, Liverpool Cathedral has been under construction ever since. It is 619 feet long, with a tower which will rise 308 feet; when completed, it will be second in size only to St. Peter's huge basilica in Rome. Nazi bombs have shattered some of its stained glass and scarred its walls, but have left mainly intact this massive red sandstone peak to St. James...