Word: tower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...historic Tower of London, which was thought to be in danger of collapse, was declared safe " for another thousand years" by an expert...
...officers and 15 men seized the cable and fastened it to another cable attached to the mast. A windlass in the mooring mast hauled the cable upwards and taking out its slack drew the airship's nose into an automatically locking swivel at the very top of the tower. The Shenandoah now rides like a huge weathercock, immune to the most violent wind and ready to fly away with but a few minutes' preparation. The use of mooring masts means smaller personnel, greater safety...
...Holders of standing room tickets on top of the Stadium will enter through Gate No. 4 to the East Tower...
Franklin Pierce Adams, famed editor of The Conning Tower, comic column of The New York World: " One William McAndrew, writing in the November World's Work, adjured me to compose verses that, if memorized, would serve as a reminder to children to be careful when crossing the streets. Wrote...
...only lived in the Middle Age or in Shaw's imagination. Therefore the one hope remaining to Phillipsburg is that tht Damocletian sword of suspended sentence will shortly fall and that the minions of the law with cotton-stuffed ears, will hail this Xantippe to some wild and lonely tower...