Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thomas Mann. world-famous novelist and essayist, will give an informal lecture tonight in the Lowell House Tower room at a meeting of the German Club at 9 o'clock. The meeting will be open only to members of the club...
...when he had finally learned his way, he settled down happily in the catacombs of Lowell and proceeded to tune the bells of the Zvon before they were installed in the tower. He tapped and tinkered all day and far, far into the night. After a week or so, however, Saradjeff found that Lowell men had a strange habit of sleeping at night and they didn't seem to appreciate his bell-tapping lullaby. This opposition to his work naturally disturbed his sensitive personality...
...inaugural, but the sublimest signal of all had been furnished the night prior at 10:30 p. m. by the sun itself, then riding at meridian over India. Its noonday rays impinged upon a photoelectric cell in Bombay, closing electric circuits by radio to start the carillon in the Tower of the Sun (400 ft., the fair's tallest). The carillon thereupon chimed out the fair's theme song, "The Bells of Treasure Island." Simultaneously on went the floodlights illuminating the Pageant of the Pacific, the Western Wonderland, the $50,000,000 Golden Gate International Exposition...
...post since General Benavides is leaving Peru," announced the Minister. "Hand over your command." The officer pretended to accept the order. Once outside the palace, however, he quickly telephoned the President's home, informed General Benavides' aides of the coup, then locked himself in the palace observation tower and trained his machine guns on the entrance to the building. Inside the palace, the Rodríguez followers armed themselves. Self-proclaimed President Rodríguez hurriedly prepared two manifestoes, one to the people, the other to the armed forces, and sent them to the newspapers...
...final try-outs for the Olympic ski-jumping team will be held at Berlin, New Hampshire on Sunday. A crowd of thirty thousand is expected to witness the jumping which will be from the world's highest steel tower. The winners will compete in the Olympic Games in Finland...