Word: towers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curiosa of U.S. colonial history-pirates and Quakers, a print of a sea serpent ingesting a naked Indian and a meticulous working drawing of the mechanism of a waterwheel, a picture (done with Audubon violence) of a skunk killing a rooster and views of gracious colonial staircases, the tower of St. Botolph's, Boston, England where John Cotton was vicar and the rather grotesque animal drawings from Brickell's The Natural History of North Carolina. The book is divided into ten chapters, the first covering the years between Columbus' first voyage and the founding of Jamestown...
...hope the importance of its task will be so apparent that newspaper publishers and editors will be glad to appear before it to give testimony on their experience in operating a free press. And we shall hope to hear also not only from ivory tower editors, but also from reporters, desk men, research associates, advertising and circulation directors-and readers...
...Benedict and his small band of followers emigrated to Cassino. About 529 St. Benedict and his monks built the Abbey of Cassino with their own hands. The Abbey, on the summit of Monte Cassino, has been partially destroyed in four earlier wars. But St. Benedict's tower has been saved each time and incorporated into the rebuilt structures...
...this tower that the abbot wrote his famed work: the Rule of St. Benedict. This Rule shaped Western monasticism. The Rule brought order into the chaotic monasteries...
...Cherry Point, they are clerks and stenographers in the post administration building. They inspect and pack parachutes at the loft, teach gunnery to the men, operate Link trainers, help in the control tower. The photography department is now exclusively a woman's domain...