Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tower of strength to Seattle's uncompromising Labor men was and is Mayor John Francis Dore, one of the most picturesque politicians in the long line of colorful characters who have sat in the city's mayoral chair. When businessmen called for police to stop "violence" at the P-I plant, Mayor Dore said that "while Seattle has a Labor Administration," police would protect no strikebreakers. He is now the objective of a recall petition...
...other cars. My vision, in all its aspects, is either questionable or low. My hearing, however, is satisfactory. The professor tells me that "it would be to my advantage to endeavor to drive as little as possible." I thank him for putting it so kindly, and off to the tower very melancholy...
...during the one-minute period devoted to extemporaneous speech that he displays an extraordinary lack of ability, generally stammering and stuttering through such entirely confused phrases as "Memorial Hall tower is 14 feet square; and if it isn't fourteen feet square, it ought...
Consider, said Dr. Gregory, the horse. The legs are like towers at each end of a bridge, the backbone is an arched cantilever system suspended from the towers, the chest and abdomen constitute the "live load." At the front end is an apparatus which can be raised and lowered like a derrick (the neck), and which car ries a grappling mechanism like a clam dredge or steam shovel (the mouth). Thanks to muscles which act as motors, tendons which transmit tension and skeletal parts which serve as levers and fulcrums, the tower-like legs may change into powerful jointed springs...
...world. Bible House still belongs to the Society, will continue to be used as a storehouse for $2,000,000 worth of printing plates for Bibles in 49 languages. That the Society could move uptown and across the street from William Randolph Hearst's swank Ritz Tower might seem evidence of prosperity. Actually it is an eleemosynary institution, well-endowed by people who are interested in providing people all over the world with the Word in their native Worrora, K'Pelle, Cakchiquel, Zapotec, Mpongwe of Karamojong. The Society sells a well-bound Bible in English for 30?, will...