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My first you will find an extremely close fit
But can be dangerous and cause a great split.
My second's clue is not what you hear for see.
Bring it out of the air to have a country.
You will need my third when your car won't go right.
If you put your head to it, your hair will go light.
My fourth (yes, there is one!) is locked in the past,
What we are now altered to be what came last.
The pennies of children supported my whole.
Crammed, to the West, it stands as symbol and soul.
Solution and Explanation
First: CLEAVE
"Cleave" has two distinct and seemingly opposite meanings: a) to adhere, or fit, closely together and b) to split into distinct parts by a cutting blow.
Second: LAND
This solution is not the sea (the homophone when someone says, "See.") If it's not sea, then it must be land. Also, when one comes out of the air, one lands. A land is also a synonym for a country.
Third: TOW
If your car fails to work, or won't go right, you might need a tow. If you applied the solution to the word "head", you would be describing a light color of hair (towhead).
Fourth: WERE
"Locked in the past" suggests
that the solution might be a past tense verb. If you take "What
we are now" and alter the verb "to be" to make it past
tense, you arrive at "were."
CLEAVE + LAND + TOW + WERE = CLEVELAND TOWER
To build Cleveland Tower at the
Graduate College, a massive fundraising campaign was begun to build this
monument to Grover Cleveland. Children across the nation were
asked to fill jars in their classrooms with pennies. Dean
West
was instrumental in seeing that Cleveland Tower was built as designed by
architect Ralph Adams Cram. Today, Cleveland Tower is the recognizable
symbol
of the Princeton Graduate School.
Winners
| #1 | Bob Rodgers '56 |
| #2 | Heather Van Buskirk GS MOB |
| #3 | Biran Lee *99 |
| #4 | Scott Rickard GS AMA |
| #5 | Nicholas Spicher '01 |
Other Correct Entries
| Sibel Bayracki *99 PHY |
| Richard T. Brown, Jr. '87 |
| Linda Jeney '93 |
| Bruce Lin *99 |
| Jan Logan *78 RLL |
| JT Miller '70 |
| David Ricci Relyea *00 PHY |
All those submitting correct entries were entered in the
Grand Prize drawing held in early July.
Congratulations!
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