Word: towers
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WILLIAM L. LANGER '15, Coolidge Professor of History Emeritus, died last month, on the eve of the publication of his autobiography, entitled In and Out of the Ivory Tower. In the book Langer writes of his long life of teaching and government service, and the book's title is an apt description of that life...
...pipes in this painting didn't look nice bare," one artist is quoted in the catalogue about his work, The New Look of Our Piggery, "so we painted some gourd leaves to cover them. We used the method of combining romanticism with reality, so we also added the water tower...
...tongues of men have proliferated considerably since the Tower of Babel helped explain how the sons of Noah came to converse in so many different languages. Today there are 3,000 languages in the world, most of them oral only, which makes life difficult for Christian missionaries sworn to spread the word of God as widely as possible. Most Bible societies, in fact, concentrate mainly on getting adequate translations into the major written languages. But the Summer Institute of Linguistics has a longer reach. For the past 42 years, following the teachings of its founder W. Cameron Townsend, S.I.L. teams...
Unfortunately, the only message that comes back is a jumbled series of numbers that doesn't impress anyone much. But then someone notices that the numbers represent, in fact, a particular latitude and longitude--Devil's Tower, Wyoming no less. the U.S. government then assumes this will be the site for our first inter-galactic rendezvous. The area is sealed off, and the government disseminates the false report that a train carrying toxic gases had derailed and that, consequently, the area must be evacuated...
...those in hockey, that remove a player for specified times; the use of a third referee to help sort out infractions that occur in the confined area under the basket, where elbows fly and tempers flare. The people who usually lurk beneath the hoop are heavyweights; most N.B.A. centers tower near the 7 ft. mark, and power forwards average more than...