Word: tower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much longer is the Crimson going to sulk in its lonely ivory tower? The editorial of Monday, October 14, betrays a state of mind in the editors which would be comically naive, were it not so dangerous to the safety of our country. The editorial said, in regard to the President of the United States, One man has give this military aid to England and no one has made the effort to stop him." Does any sane American really want to stop him? Regardless of the fact that we obtained vital bases in return for those obsolete destroyers...
Until they read these words, most U. S. readers who had heard of Jules Romains at all thought of him as an author brooding in an ivory tower, from which periodically issued a new volume of his tremendous, partly-completed novel, Men of Good Will...
...Ornithological Club will hold its first meeting of the year this evening in Lowell House Tower Room, and not in the Common Room as was previously announced. Wendell Taber will speak on "The Canadian Zone Birds of New England...
Lampy will hold a session in the "Poon building tonight; the Guardian will call a meeting tomorrow night in P.B.H.; and the Progressive will meet Wednesday night in the Lowell House Tower Room...
Stange's thesis is increasingly untrue, as the very inspiring Credo by the President of the Teacher's Union demonstrates. The day of the ivory tower is in its last hour-both because of the recognition by more and more faculty members (with Professor Matthiessen) that "there is no good thinking divorced the loss happy fact of war and its impact on scholarly "objectivity." In any other year Stange's article would have only a gram of truth; in this year it has not a particle...