Word: towers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hall is now a relic neither loved nor hated by the students. Its fantastic Gothic architecture, combining a red and blue slate roof with a monstrous green clock tower, no longer appeals to the aesthetic taste of the twentieth century. To the unsuspecting freshman it looms up on his first day as an artistic nightmare. Since the commons was discontinued in 1924, the tremendous nave is used only for registration, examinations, and Commencement. At these times the few remaining busts may be seen unreverently adorned with hats of modern style. Many debate the feasibility of junking the collossal structure. Awaiting...
...studio, spent the next quarter-hour in goofy, unrehearsed chatter with Jane, about a bridge game the night before. It was a hit. By the following year, Easy Aces had gone to Chicago and the big time. Now the Aces live in style at Manhattan's Ritz Tower, get a reported $3,500 a week...
...look easy. Using scissors on the convict driver, Touhy commandeered a garbage truck inside the prison yard. Loading some ladders and his colleagues-in-flight on to it (and taking along two guards, one of whom was mauled, as hostages), Touhy drove the truck to silo-shaped guard tower No. 3. There the criminals shot and slightly wounded Guard Herman Kross, scaled the 35-ft. wall, walked down the tower's outside steps, hopped into Guard Kross's car (parked near by) and drove away. All this took an hour. In that time few guards noticed, no guard...
...watched while the President shook hands with men in wheel chairs on the lawn. The President spoke to Marine Leo Lopacinski, who killed 36 Japanese in the Solomon Islands before he himself was wounded. He examined a U.S. submarine which had nine little Japanese flags painted on the conning tower-one for each ship it had sunk...
...News has given the Harvard funny magazine a back room in its offices at Radcliffe. It is rumored that a complete merger of the two groups may soon take place. The tower of Mt. Auburn Street, ancien bourg of 'Poonsters, will be closed "until Victory, to quote Judy Garland," Oliver E. Allen '43, president, announced. "We did it as a friendly gesture," he said...