Word: towers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through the experience and awakened in his bed to find it was only a bad dream. Last week London Bus Driver Albert Gunter, 46, knew that it was no dream. With 20 passengers in his double-decker bus, Albert was just starting across the draw in London's Tower Bridge, as he had hundreds of times before. Suddenly, he said later, "it seemed as though the roadway in front of me was falling away." Albert started to jam on his brakes. Then he changed his mind...
Beefeaters Union Tower Warders, Under orders, Gallant pikemen, valiant swordersf -The Yeomen of the Guard The puffy old gentlemen in red-breasted tunics who carry halberds up and down the battlements of the Tower of London are, as every U.S. tourist knows well, Yeomen Warders. At the drop of one of their black band box hats, they will explain at length that England's first Tudor king, Henry VII, recruited them in 1485 to serve as his personal bodyguard, and that they earned their proud name in 1669 when the Grand Duke of Tuscany wrote: "They are great eaters...
What they do not explain is that in modern Britain, Beefeaters have kept their uniforms and little else. They eat as little beef as everyone else in the meatless isles (not more than 23? worth weekly on the ration), and largely confine themselves to guarding the Tower by day, checking files and posing for tourists' photographs. They might be called bureaucrats...
...Civil Service [trade] Union. Even after the union raised its age limit to 65, four were ineligible (the oldest, Yeoman David Sprake, is 84) ; two others refused to join. Said one: "When you mount guard, you may know that nowadays there are no marauders outside the Tower and no prisoners inside. But you wouldn't stop mounting guard, would you? You just can't keep changing things...
...second piece questioned the entire value of "a community of scholars" and quoted one student who called the Graduate College "an ivory tower on an ivory pedestal." The Princetonian reviewed the history of the Graduate college, especially Woodrow Wilson's opposition to it. As present of Princeton Wilson wanted its graduate school to be "at the very heart of the campus" while the dean of the school. Andrew Fleming West favored a distant location and an aloof conception for his school. Eventually west favored a distant location and au aloof conception for his school. Eventually West aided by an offer...