Word: tower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When hawks fight, that one wins which can tower fastest and highest to strike from above. Having learned that the same is true of fighting airplanes, the War Department has ordered some "Super-Hawks," capable of towering and fighting as high as man ever flew.* The Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Co., commissioned to build five "Super-Hawks," last week issued some of their specifications...
...Guardia, gallant aviator, had never before sailed in a submarine. Said he: "I tore up a speech I had all ready to deliver in Congress. I have found it seems much easier to navigate a submarine from the office building of the House of Representatives than from the conning tower of a submarine." He returned to Congress, his cudgel up for the Navy...
...such a strictly business plant there is little room for luxury. Only Arthur Brisbane is pampered. The famed concoctor of editorial paragraphs has a private library, dressing room, shower bath, should he be too busy for those luxuries in his tall Ritz Tower. But even in his spacious suite the desks, where work is done, are made of metal. No New Year's work was done on them; Mr. Brisbane far from Manhattan as he often is, wrote paragraphs from a desert in California...
...duty of his steady mind is to keep the fiscal balance of a continent, there danced in his head, last week, jocund plans for Christmas at his home and birthplace, Bloomfield, N. J. Old college chums from Rutgers and Harvard Law would make merry with him. He would tower in Manhattan among financiers, and in Washington above those who were his associates when he was a Treasury "career man." Best of all, wise Agent Gilbert had contrived that he should be snug aboard the Leviathan, last week, when the Reparations Bureau released at Berlin his 237-page printed report...
...Junior Committee in charge of the balloting is headed by A. R. Sweezy and includes Morton Cole, James De Normandie, P. I. Dunne, J. K. Fairbank, A. H. Harlow, J. W. McPherson, Robert Reinhart, P. H. Rhinelander, J. H. Sachs, H. F. Schwarz, R. A. Stout, W. S. Tower, R. G. West, and W. S. Youngman. After the close of the polls the same committee will count the ballots and the results will be announced in the CRIMSON tomorrow...