Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also significant of the greatly improved relations between Italy's Dictator and the Royal Family was the recently unveiled bas-relief in the Roman Senate courtyard. There, in unlifelike sculpture, the small 5 ft. 3 in. King is made to tower over the actually much taller, 5 ft. 7 in. Dictator...
...Wheaton College project has been called the most important competition in U. S. architecture since the world-wide competition for the Chicago Tribune Tower in 1922. No such soaring mass of steel and stone, as the 36-story Tribune Building, the College's proposed art centre is nevertheless a sizable, $500,000 building, requiring a theatre to seat 500, a small auditorium for lectures, an art library, workshops, lecture rooms, studios, galleries, soundproof practice rooms for the music department...
...sets. Davega City Radio Inc., retail specialists in radios and sporting goods, jumped on the band wagon, making a deal with Allen B. DuMont Laborato^ ries, Inc. for exhibition and sale of DuMont sets. Demonstrations were planned to pick up the NBC experimental evening telecast from the Empire State tower. What often happens to best-laid plans began to happen fast...
...United Air Liner in a Cleveland gulch last week, this much was known: at 11:07 p.m., the DST (Douglas Sleeper Transport) radioed Cleveland: SHIP OVER PARKMAN. FOUR THOUSAND FEET ALTITUDE. EVERYTHING O.K. A few minutes later Radio Operator James C. Wynne, in the Cleveland Airport control tower, saw the plane and prepared to "talk" Pilot James Brandon in to a landing. Suddenly the DST disappeared...
...gust of wind, scars off toward the Business School. After three and a half minutes, the judges announces that as it has disappeared from sight, its flight is officially at an end. Later in the afternoon the report flashes about that the missing ship is found in the tower of Dunster House...