Word: towers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bells Speak. For the first time since the carillonneur had left for the Royal Air Force, the 53 bells in Ottawa's Peace Tower, rising high over the plaza, came to life. Carillonneur Robert Donnell, on special furlough, played America, the Beautiful, then The Maple Leaf Forever. The silver notes shimmered in the cool midday air; the crowd cheered and waved its flags...
...flag-draped speaker's stand beneath the Tower of Peace, Franklin Roosevelt stood silent for a full five minutes, watching the faces, staring at the farthest reaches of the crowd a quarter of a mile away. In his lifetime he had received many ovations, and in its history
...came out. A distant cannon boomed the hour of noon. From the bell tower fell the slow notes of God Save the King. The crowd stood motionless; until the last echo died there was no movement but the slow swell of the flags...
...White faces stared up from the U-boat's deck. Men rushed to the conning tower and clambered in. The U-boat crash-dived. Down through the Atlantic's summer sky Pilot Thomas H. Isley's U.S. Army Liberator screamed in an eight-mile dive at a target of agitated water. From the plane's belly dropped a depth charge. The swirling sea gushed forth black blobs...
...west end of Memorial, including the Great Hall and the Cloisters, were finished early in 1874, Sanders Theatre for commencement in 1876, and the tower stands some 190 feet high as one of the outstanding University land-marks...