Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...waitresses for the dining room used to live on the premises. they occupied rooms, now empty, high up in the tower, walking in a week over a mile straight up and down...
10th. Lord, these little birds! How early they do rise and chirp and with them all the Tower. So I up too, and awhile to watch the River which so early in the morning is covered with golden mist as beautiful as ever I did sec. Whereupon, very serious, I to read my speech which is cloquent, but I am no great speaker and why I did enter this contest I do not know. "Charm us, orator, till the lion look no longer than the cat!" Fiddlesticks! Already there be too much false charming and not enough truth. But Plato...
...back to the Tower to dress, and, very handsome, to Dunster House to an exhibition of contemporary French paintings. The tea was very good. Thence home and a little sore at my heart that I cannot appreciate this modern art; so I to play my gramophone, and anon...
...looks bright. Last year as three Blue teams met three Crimson sextets on Boston ice it was the Jayvee and Freshman teams, winning by one-point margins, that partly retrieved the laurals which the Varsity lost by a similar margin; this year the Varsity is looked to as a tower of strength, well capable of offsetting any bad results that fickle fortune may throw to the less experienced teams...
Ancient eggs found in the tower of Memorial Hall are still a mystery, Dick Harlow, chief curator of such objects, being in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He will return next Tuesday...