Word: towers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...busy doing something about it. To mark the city's 400th anniversary next month, they had hit upon a handsome gift: a clock, not nearly so big as Big Ben, but big enough to bang out the hours in deep and dependable tones. Topping a 33-ft. granite tower, the $10,000 clock will stand smack in the middle of 2-mi.-high La Paz.* Cracked Buenavista: "What is the use of having a British clock if the man who sets it is a Bolivian? Let us by all means have a Britisher, or at any rate someone...
...cared to climb to the top of the television tower at Soldiers Field, you could see the home towns of most of this year's Varsity ends. Johnny Florentine and Stretch Mazzone live in Everett, Sophomore Bob DiBlasio comes from Newton, and Red Hill, makes his home in Arlington...
...Soldiers Field the accent was on defense. The three and a half hour workout started with skull work in the Field House and ended with 40-odd players doing windsprints by the light of the television tower; in between was mostly football...
...Henry Bessemer toyed with the notion, other inventors dreamed of it; last week it became a reality. In Beaver Falls, Pa., steelworkers poured molten metal into a mold, watched the melt slowly make its way down a 75-ft. tower, to be cooled, cut and ejected as a steel billet ready to be shipped. Commercial steel had at last been cast from molten to semi-finished state in one continuous process...
...Ruin. In socialite Newport, scholars are having another go at the mystery of the Old Stone Mill. Led by Archeologist William S. Godfrey, the diggers will try to determine whether it is a Viking church tower or only the ruins of a windmill built by Governor Benedict Arnold (great-grandfather of Traitor Arnold) of the Rhode Island colony. Down-to-earth archeologists side with James Fenimore Cooper who (in The Red Rover) called it a windmill. The romantic school inclines to Longfellow, whose The Skeleton in Armor refers to the "lofty tower" built by a far-flung Norseman...