Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Physically unable to bring actual plants to the Fair, other industries have found three substitutes. Some have full-size, realistic imitations: U. S. Steel will, with trick lighting effects, dazzle spectators by apparently belching molten metal out of a blast furnace in a tower 40 ft. high. Others have erected working models: oil industry, a miniature refinery. Still others have put up huge dioramas (three-dimensional picture-models) : with three such the meat industry will show all that happens to beef on its way from cattle range to kitchen range...
Under an agreement made with Chicago World's Fair officials, Al Simmons, Jimmy Dykes. "Red" Kress consented to try for a world's catching championship by catching baseballs thrown to them from the top of a 625-foot Sky Ride tower (see p. 14). When a mathematician found that the balls would be traveling 136.80 miles an hour, would strike with an impact of 6,604 foot pounds, White Sox Owner Louis A. Comiskey refused to risk his players...
...Which set Colyumist Franklin Pierce Adams ("F. P. A.") to probing the theory of limits in his Conning Tower: "You get $100 a week and get a 50% cut. . . . Then things get better and you get a 50% rise: $75 a week. They get bad and you get a 50% cut: $37.50 a week. They improve and you get a 50% rise: you get $56.25. ... So in an infinite number of years you'll be getting $50 a week again...
...rumored that grass skirts will be seen in great numbers, while the members and guests favor the attire of Barnacle Bill, the sailor. Tickets will be on sale at the tower for those who have not purchased them before hand. The price for couples will be reduced one-half at 1 o'clock, according to the committee that consists of D. S. Carmichael '35, J. deB. Bertolet '35, R. W. Skinner '34, and J. R. Fetcher...
...Jesus Tower are inscriptions in Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic. Not with out tact must the Y. M. C. A. be, for Jerusalem seethes with 52,000 Jews, 19,000 Moslems, 19,000 assorted Christians. Fortnight ago when Lord Allenby ap peared in Jerusalem, there were angry mutterings in Arab newspapers. Veiled Moslem women paraded making bitter speeches. To them it seemed that the Y. M. C. A. planned to proselytize with its fine new building. But they were mis taken. And other Jerusalemites were less truculent because they had already seen how the Y. M. C. A. operates...