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Word: towering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buzz Hoover uses 23¼ of KFKA's 88 hours a week. He built KFKA a new transmitter, which the now booming station has nearly paid for. In Hoover Park, around his auction arena, he has his own studio, the 300-foot transmitter tower outlined with red neon lights. In the park are cattle pens, a Buzz Hoover lumber yard, garages, stores, tourist cottages. On auction days, when the radio-beckoned crowds turn out in droves, Buzz wears a slick cowboy outfit and so do Claude and Esther. His roustabouts wear natty, filling-station-style uniforms with cowboy hats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Prairie Showman | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...passed into the hands of stocky, dynamic President Roy Walker of Educational Publishing Corp. Publisher Walker wanted it as a classroom adjunct to The Grade Teacher, trade journal for educators. Then last year Woolworth's began to look around for new magazines to replace the 5-&-10?store Tower Group, which had just sunk in a morass of financial trouble and scandal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: St. Nicholas to Woolworth's | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...same time it was announced that Dr. Friedrich Bell, lecturer in German Literature, will deliver a humorous address at the first meeting tonight at 7:45 o'clock in the Lowell House Tower Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GERMAN CLUB ISSUES STATEMENT OF POLICY | 10/17/1939 | See Source »

...British light bomber, the U-5-K appearing from nowhere while the submarine still lay by watching the rescue. A half-dozen men were on the U-boat's deck when the diving plane raked it with machine-gun fire. The submarine dived frantically, perhaps with its conning tower still open. The bomber, swooping twice again, dropped charges which almost certainly demolished the U-boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Submarine v. Blockade | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...least five warships, as well as airplanes, participated in the battle, according to a description by the light keeper of Felo Tower, north of the coastal town of Bergen...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 9/26/1939 | See Source »

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