Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large crowd gathered to watch the testing of the Lafayette Square Fire Department's new hook and ladder, complete with 100-feet water tower. The boys from Lafayette gleefully sprayed the home of the boys from Koscluske with two towering torrents of water. "This is the only time we ever have fun," exulted one smoke-eater...
...years the indigent aged who live in New York City's municipal poor houses on Staten and Welfare Islands, have been issued standard raiment. In a century it has grown almost as quaint as the outfits of Beefeaters in London's Tower. For men it consists of high shoes with elastic inserts like Congress gaiters and cotton suits whose intrinsic shapelessness is a true reflection of the style of nightshirt in which they have to sleep. For women it consists of coarse cotton mother hubbards, black cotton stockings, shoes like the men's, floppy sunbonnets. To both...
...Half-Brother Neville Chamberlain, who is 69-each of these three, after years of experience in civic, national and finally international affairs, reached the conclusion that firm peace between Britain and Germany is a cornerstone without which peace in Europe is something that cannot be built, a phantom dream tower of ideals which end in blood...
...field structures in line with the laboratory building. Only other important objection to Gravelly Point has been that air activity there might conflict with traffic at the Army's Boiling Field, just across the river. That was ironed out, too, by a plan for a central control tower submitted by Major General Oscar Westover, Army Air Corps chief, just before he flew off to die in a crash at Burbank, Calif., last month...
Sixth Crew--Stroke, Prince; 7, Creighton; 6, Brown; 5, Gill; 4, Clay; 3, Smith; 2, MacKenzic; bow, Tower; cox, Thompson...