Word: tower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...love, many francs, pounds and dollars have been given to the Carmelites at Lisieux in whose daily prayers all subscribers are remembered. At Lisieux last week there was tangible result of this giving. Dedicated was the crypt of a great basilica which is to rise, with Romanesque dome and tower, in honor of St. Thérèse. Jean Cardinal Verdier, Archbishop of Paris, and the Bishop of Bayeux, presided. Came also many a prelate returning from the Eucharistic Congress in Dublin. There were open air masses, processions, lectures on the holy life of the Little Flower...
...lighter-than-air study. Housed in a new building at the Akron Municipal Airport, hard by the gigantic Goodyear-Zeppelin dock, the Guggenheim Airship Institute was to be dedicated this week. Features: largest vertical wind tunnel in existence, 60 ft. high; a small wind tunnel for testing instruments; meteorological tower; structural testing room. Chief problems to be attacked: nature of the so-called "boundary layer" of air, adjacent to the outer skin of an airship, and its resistant effect upon outriggers, radiators, ventilator hoods and other protrusions; study of surface wind currents which make ground-handling of an airship difficult...
...little grey banking house John Pierpont Morgan the Elder let a black cigar droop from his lips. Through the door peered the late Edward Dean Adams, little known to Wall Streeters but a tower of strength to bankers. "Hello, Adams," muttered Mr. Morgan, "It's still going...
...life at Enkendal is no longer possible without him: he returns. In the tower over the library are her rooms. There, by means of a secret stairway, Alison climbs night after night. Their love has long been consummated when von Norwitz returns from the war, a hopeless invalid...
...course such a proposal posits that the time will be spent in definite study. The bottle-fed tours conducted by Cook, the flying trips to Europe extensively advertised among the intelligentsia which outline a day in Paris, including visits to "the Louvre, Eiffel Tower, Napoleon's Tomb, the Invalides (sic), Luxembourg Gardens, the Trocadero, the Cathedral of Notre Dame, and to Versailles" with "remaining free time to be taken up by visits to the theatre, the Opera, shopping, etc.," such trips are culturally worthless. They serve only to while away the long hours of retired nutmeg manufacturers, and provide...