Word: tower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grey mist hung close to the grey, metallic Thames. It was early in the morning and the ships that came from Virginia and the East lay at anchor, silent and calm. Out of the murky water stood the colorless walls and turrets of the Tower of London; and, on the big White Tower, the flag of the Stuarts, wet and heavy, slapped against its pole as the giddy wind of a London fog caught it and let it fall...
...bell struck, his hour of freedom was over, and he returned to his tower cell to continue his vast "History of the World" on which he never got further than the Roman conquest of Greece. But the History was not all that came from Raleigh's pen, and so today the Vagabond will go to Sever 11 at 11 o'clock to hear Professor Munn talk on Raleigh's prose works...
Electricity to run a car one mile (2½ tower round trips) costs 1?. Other buildings find the costs about the same. Hence...
...Rockefeller Center building now being constructed will run, at 1.200 ft. per min. (14 mi. per hr.). Speed is scarcely felt, because the cars start and stop smoothly. But many passengers become uncomfortable as they ride. The air pressure atop the great tower buildings is about one-half pound per square inch less than at the street level. Elevator passengers feel the difference as an annoying pressure on the ear drums. They overcome the discomfort by pretending to swallow. That action opens the eustachian tubes, allows air pressure on the inner sides of the ear drums to equalize air pressure...
...cost of running an elevator up & down the Chrysler tower averages, all operating costs included, about 25? a round trip. Cars in that building run 320,000 mi., make 12,000,000 stops a year...