Word: tower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cambridge were almost as sentimental over Sal as their predecessors would have been over the proverbial fire-horse of a few decades ago. Any grief that they might have felt over Sal's retirement, however, was amply dispelled by her successor, a G1-foot aerial laddor and water tower...
...official pumper of the Appleton Chapel organ for 30 years, he used to supply the music-making wind every morning. "That was some job!" he asserted. "The old bellows leaked about as fast as I could pump. Many a drop of sweat I left in that old tower...
There were other stirrings last week in the children's press, a field which has disintegrated in the past 20 years. There are youngsters' magazines, like Child Life, American Boy and American Girl and the Tower Magazines' Tiny Tower. But there is nothing like the old loyalty and passionate enthusiasm for St. Nicholas and Youth's Companion...
...Coolidge has no authority over the grinding clangor which issues from his tower one Sunday every month; the Corporation has wisely kept for itself the power to decree the playing of the bells. So far it has not invited A. Tilman Merritt, instructor in Music, to play extemporaneously. The chances are that the scheme will die a Harvard death, buffeted from official to official...
...shaped in a single mighty operation from single sheets of seamless steel. To whip them out the company's Fisher Body division has 18 giant new presses, largest of the kind ever built. Glowering edifices of gears, shafting, cable, motors and massive slides, the tallest of them tower 27 ft. above the floors, extend down another 12½ ft. into concrete pits. They deliver against the blanks a working pressure of 2,000,000 Ib. The triple-action stroke will not start until four men use both hands to push starting buttons, will automatically stop unless each operator keeps...