Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Architect Hood designed the Chicago Tribune Tower (with John Mead Howells), the New York Daily News building, is on the Chicago World's Fair planning commission...
...from Cornell in 1927, went home to Cleveland where she became a professional photographer when she found her hobby paid. Otis Steel Co. gave her her first big job., which she did so well that Cleveland's Van Sweringen brothers engaged her to take pictures of their Terminal Tower project. Then FORTUNE sought her, brought her to Manhattan. Now at 26, her income is $50,000 a year. Nervy, she has gone where her eye led her never takes no for an answer. She has shot pictures in Canadian lumber camps at 27° below Zero, on the spire...
High above a terraced garden facing the River Seine and the Eiffel Tower perches the huge, crescent-shaped Palais du Trocadéro built for the Paris Exposition of 1878. On Borah Night last week 8,000 people jammed the Trocadéro Auditorium. Huge banners strung around the balconies proclaimed that 1,043 delegates from peace societies in 30 lands had been gathered by the International Union of League of Nations Associations into this, a monster Peace & Disarmament Conference, an unofficial curtain-raiser for the League's World Disarmament Conference in Geneva next February. The trouble with last...
...square base, constructed in brick, as is the rest of the building, tapers sharply towards the top, where the material to be used is wood and darker stone or slate. A belfry in the tower will contain the large bell now used in Harvard Hall; the spire will be topped with a weather vane...
...west end will be a portico, with four pillars. The entrance which will be in daily use is located on the south side, and east of the tower, near Sever Hall. Outside the Memorial room located under the tower, will be a second portico, also with four pillars...