Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...SPOT-Gunplay within sight of the Chicago Tribune's tower...
...building of a suitable chapel will be the precursor to a revival of religion at Harvard, even if they are right in their prediction, which I deny, damn their faith by admitting that it is dependent on brick and mortar. With regard to the place, the prospect of a tower higher than that of Memorial Hall to "balance" Widener Library suggests the balancing of a hippopotamus by a giraffe or another architectural nightmare like the balancing of the Indoor Athletic Building by the Lowell House Tower. (I would suggest that Memorial Hall by torn down and the Chapel erected...
...placed the expense at $800,000, while another, estimating a cost of $1,300,000, proposed a Chapel of 2,000 capacity, extending from near Thayer Hall at the West end to a line parallel to Sever at the East. To carry out this plan, which includes a large tower, it would be necessary to remove not only the present Appleton Chapel, but also Old Fogg Art Museum...
...posture may squat across the Yard opposite Widener, thereby effectively removing one of the few remaining airy-approaches to the Yard. A chapel so huge that its wings extend from the back doors of Thayer to the windows of Sever 11 and surmounted with a typical Harvard-Georgian-Colonial tower is not a pleasant prospect. From the point of view of location the thing would be even more preposterous than the three Wigglesworths of Massachusetts Avenue...
...copy desk the bulletin went for editing and headlines. Copy-readers, some in the service of the paper for decades, leaned across their desks to see for themselves. With the speed of bad news, the word flashed from the tower of the ugly, gilt-domed old Pulitzer Building to the press rooms in the basement. Startled clerks from the circulation office, grimy printers from below, made for the city room to confirm the horrid report. . . . Was this, after 48 years, to be the end of the great, crusading World? Were their jobs not, as they had confidently believed, held secure...