Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Belgian peasants harkened one morning to the sombre ringing of bells, Londoners were being wakened by the sound of guns. From Hyde Park and the Tower of London 41 thundering discharges shook the metropolis and Londoners hardly turned a hair. They barely recalled the 23rd anniversary of Britain's going to war but they were well aware of the 37th anniversary of another event, the birth of a girl child- her ninth-to the amiable and motherly Countess of Strathmore & Kinghorne. It was the birthday of England's new Queen Elizabeth...
...point at which to enter Paris 1937 is the hopefully green Peace Tower at the gate formed by the two great marble wings of the new Trocadero Palace, this to be a permanent structure housing Paris art exhibits of the highest class. From it visitors descend broad steps with the Eiffel Tower rising ahead of them across the Seine, on their left the massive German pavilion with its brooding Nazi eagle, on their right the flamboyant Soviet pavilion topped by excited proletarian figures, and before them a great basin of foaming fountains, flanked by assorted foreign pavilions. Massive-pillared Egypt...
...first big Westinghouse coups was the installation of 36 top-speed (1,400 ft. per min.) elevators in Radio City's 69-story Rockefeller Tower. These smooth performers differ from Otis elevators in the use of photo-electric cells instead of the usual electrical contacts for braking and for leveling off at each floor. In en- gineering innovations Westinghouse has kept in stride with Otis by matching Otis' double-decker elevators in Manhattan's Cities Service Building with a system for running two elevators in the same shaft. But Otis' great advantage lies in its maintenance...
...policeman, cart-horses and Simpson's beef-steak." * The worst example of English bad taste she found in her hotel lavatory, where the toilet-paper was stamped with an advertisement showing "a lovely little child's face." Peering through heavy bars at the British crown in the Tower of London, she wished that she could be in the crown's place looking out at the acquisitive expression on the faces of the onlookers...
...father had done before him, and on the same spot in Menlo Park, N. J., recited Assistant Secretary of Navy Charles Edison, son of the late Inventor Thomas Alva Edison, into the straight horn of the first phonograph ever manufactured, as part of the cornerstone ceremony of an Edison "Tower of Light" monument, to be surmounted by a 13-ft. incandescent bulb...