Word: turreted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...construction on Oak Ridge will include the building and turret for the 60-inch reflector, three buildings for the other telescopes, a central building containing dark room, clock room, working library, storage, and quarters for one or two observers. Two or three separate cottages will be constructed for those members of the staff who will remain permanently on the site...
...only entrance to his garden is too narrow for a fat man to pass, but the slender poet slips through easily. As a garden ornament the Italian Government erected at huge expense the entire forepart and bridge of the battleship Puglia, complete with searchlights and a working gun turret. Here Signore d'Annunzio fires eccentric salutes when not busy writing verses on small slips of paper bound like a check book. Inside the house every gamut of furnishing is run from monkish asceticism to regal luxury. Describing his amazing do main the will of Poet d'Annunzio continues...
...cement kiln. Its sparkling roof, white as sugar icing, is decorated by a frieze of pink and blue imitation candy hearts. Huge cookies (of cork) are set in the giddily striped and curlicued walls. A six-foot painted knight in gaudy armor on a painted horse spins from a turret as a weather vane. A gigantic black cat arches his cast stone back on the top of a sugar-stick minaret. A trained seal on a barber's pole is balancing a whirling ball on the tip of his nose. Up the balustrade of the exterior staircase stalks...
Died. Lieut. Mons Monssen, U. S. N., retired; in Brooklyn Naval Hospital; following appendectomy. In 1904, as chief gunner's mate on the battleship Missouri, he saved 600 officers and men from destruction by leaping into the powder magazine of a flaming gun turret, shutting the door, fighting the fire with bare hands. President Roosevelt pinned the Medal of Honor on his breast...