Word: towers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SATURDAY AFTERNOON (following football game) Closed Cocktail Parties: All fraternities, Tower Club, Hegeman D, Hegeman E. Open Cocktail Parties: Hegeman B, Olney, Sears, Wayland, Marcy, Caswell (in Buxton Lounge...
Louis Loss, professor of Law, countered by citing the mobility of American law professors, many of whom teach and practice simultaneously, thus avoiding an ivory tower approach...
...this year are plastic cap rifles ($2.98 to $4). Yo-yos come shaped like basketballs, footballs and baseballs. For electric train buffs, there is a new signal tower; when the train goes by, one man pops out, another climbs down the ladder waving his flag at motorists...
...ferry, and headed for the Polish-German border. He got lost in the forests, ate the last of his bread, dug potatoes out of a field and baked them. Near the border he found coils of barbed wire looped along the ground. He followed the wire, detouring a guard tower, followed a set of footprints into the wire, found a pair of wire-snippers dropped by a guard. Mieczyslaw cut the wire and tiptoed across a ten-meter band of smooth sand toward the next barrier, a low stake fence draped with barbed wire. He snipped his way through that...
Scheduled in 1916, the opening of the Museum was delayed six years because of the first World War. Hatred of the Kaiser was so intense in Cambridge that attendants hustled his full-length portrait into hiding in the bell tower. Nevertheless, the very presence of something German in Cambridge stirred suspicion. The story floated around that the unusually heavy foundations of the building were really gun emplacements, from which Hindenburg's Big Berthas were to lob shells into the heart of Boston. Public pressure closed the Museum's doors during the second War as well...