Word: tower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chairman of the firm. Even then he did not return to Chicago. Once a week or oftener he taxis thither by air to confer with Sears' President Robert E. Wood, but his home is in Philadelphia and most of his work is done in his office in the tower of Sears Roebuck's great $8,000,000 store far out on broad Roosevelt Boulevard...
...Schrembs of Cleveland. Ship newshawks discovered these big-city Bishops, immediately asked Detroit's what he thought of Father Coughlin's calling President Roosevelt a liar (TIME, July 27). Bishop Gallagher, whose countenance, as that of the Archangel Michael, adorns the political priest's Charity Crucifixion Tower near Detroit, replied...
...last week a black cloud rolled in from Lake Erie toward Conneaut, Ohio, dropped from its belly a thin, whirling column which touched the dark water, churned up a fountain of spray. This towering waterspout, more than 3,000 ft. high, moved in over the fringe of the town, where it began to behave like a tornado. It smashed windows in a score of houses, ripped off a porch, reduced a chicken coop to matchwood, hurled a bevy of screeching fowl high into the air. Prancing into the Nickel Plate Road yards, the funnel sucked up some heavy cans...
Most interesting of the four-foot models on view last week was a group of seven showing the history of one hillside at Petersham, Mass. First appeared the primeval forest of 1700: white pines 150 ft. tall tower over the beeches, maples, hemlocks and oaks; only in a clearing caused, perhaps, by an Indian's fire is the weedy undergrowth of modern woods visible...
...ruins of jungle-covered Angkor, lost from the 15th to the 19th Century, impressed him deeply, inspired him to serious study of their artistic achievements, their magnificent, detailed bas-reliefs and sculptured towers. The central buildings of Angkor Wat, a mile square, rising almost as high as the tower of Notre Dame in Paris and built about the same time, he decided must be one of the loveliest pieces of architecture in the world, the most perfect building, except for Christopher Wren's Greenwich Hospital, that he had ever seen...