Word: towers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest recent fire at Harvard was that in the Memorial Hall Tower last fall, which Captain Connelly calls "One of the best jobs of fire-fighting I've ever seen. If men hadn't been willing to risk their lives, we would not have prevented the complete loss of the building." Other large recent Harvard fires have been those in the Union and Claverly, the latter made famous by Confidential Magazine last summer...
...ruins with loot, wine and women. Thus Voltaire derided the notion that those who have bad luck must deserve it. Some men as sensible as Voltaire, and more charitable, recalled what Jesus said on the occasion of a mishap in the Holy Land: "Those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell...
Construction of the tower atop Dudley Hall will begin almost immediately and will cost about $3,000, according to Loren Wyss '55, president of the station. WHRB officials estimate that they will have a test signal on the air before...
...operation of the station will not be affected by the addition of frequency modulation, since the FM signal will be radiated through the air instead of over the University electrical systems. Signal range from the new tower will vary between four and 25 miles...
Exploding the devices from balloons will reduce this local fallout. There will be no tower to vaporize (the balloon hardly counts), and if the balloon is tethered high enough, the rising cloud will drag no hot dust with...