Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Municipal Airport. One day last week Frank Krebs ran out onto the field, hopped up on the wing of an idling plane to have some routine papers signed. Before Pilot Lieut. Lewis J. Connors saw Krebs, he saw the "go" signal from the field's control tower and started the plane along the runway. Before Krebs realized what was happening it was too late to jump. He slid astride the fuselage as the plane took off, hung on by the edge of the rear cockpit for dear life. He thought he was in for a pickaback ride...
...group of conspirators led by Miss Ann Fisher, comely secretary in Robinson Hall, recently completed the second attack on Memorial Hall in as many weeks, climbing the heights of the clock tower to measure the diameter of the face of the clock...
...While the world's cables hummed with such news and Berlin dispatches reported the mood of the German Foreign Office to be "consternation," Statesmen Daladier and Bonnet went out to be overnight guests of King George and Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle where they were lodged in Lancaster Tower, "the most luxurious guest suite." With all males in court dress, a State dinner was served off plates of gold, and the band of the Grenadier Guards played "not only during dinner but afterward in the Crimson Drawing Room...
...opinion of blunt Manhattan Park Commissioner Robert Moses, "Barnum had his sacred white elephant and every fair is entitled to at least one theme tower." More irreverent remarks than this have been made about the esthetic and symbolic value of the Fair's great ball and spike. At the other extreme, the Fair's publicity department, whose lyricism is more than adequate to its task, has described the Perisphere as symbolic of the all-inclusive World of Tomorrow and the Trylon as a Pointer to Infinity. To the architects who designed the centre, however, the Perisphere and Trylon...
...like" dome of Kilimanjaro, 19,710 feet, in Tanganyika, the highest mountain in Africa. Since the Germans built huts on it during the War, at 8,500 feet and at 11,500 feet, Author Tilman says cavalierly that Kilimanjaro offers ''no climbing difficulties whatsoever." The great jagged tower of Mount Kenya, 17.040 feet, buttressed with ridges and festooned with hanging glaciers, was a far tougher job. On the peak experienced climbers had violent attacks of vomiting, and on the descent Tilman fell 80 feet to a rock ledge, landed physically unhurt, but with his mind wandering...