Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long-needed renovation of and addition to our White House office building is to be started. ... If I were to listen to the arguments of some prophets of calamity ... I should fear that while I am away for a few weeks the architects might build some strange new Gothic tower or a factory building or per-haps a replica of the Kremlin or of Potsdam Palace. But I have no such fears...
Neither a Gothic tower, nor a factory building, nor a replica of the Kremlin nor of Potsdam's ornate Neues Palais awaited President Roosevelt's first official inspection last week. As a matter of fact the work of enlarging the Executive Offices had been done so cunningly that it would take a sharp eye to detect the changes from the outside. But on the inside there was ample evidence of what Architect Lorenzo Simmons Winslow, a $4,000-3-year employe of the National Park Service, ably assisted by Eric Gugler, consulting architect, and N. P. Severin Co. of Chicago...
...clay when compressed becomes soft mud because clay is made up of minute mineral particles and voids filled with water. Compression gradually forces the water out, the rate of consolidation depending on the depth of the strata and the weight supported. A classic example of the subsidence is the Tower of Pisa, which furnishes fairly accurate data on the factors of weight and shape. Mistakes in foundation engineering are responsible for more damage and loss of life than all other causes combined...
...four Radcliffe idlers are: Edipus, Munro L. Lyeth '37. Piresias, Arthur Seathmary '37; Young Soldier, David A. Barber '37. Second Soldier, Paul Killiam '37; Narrator, William M. Hunt 2d. '36; Anubis, George H. Edgell, Jr. '37; Creon, Richard C. Sullivan '35; Captain. Robert I McKee '37; Ghost, James W. Tower '35; Old Shepherd, Stephen Greene '37; Messenger, Glenn Morris '38. Drunken Man Harvey Huston '38. Jocasia, Jean Goodale; Sphinx, Lois Hall; Antigone, Doris Reimer; Matron, Emeline Hill...
...college, he hunts first for a hill. John Harvard was an Englishman and indifferent to high places. The result is that Harvard has become a university of vast proportions and no color. Yale flounders about among the New Haven shops, trying to rise above them. The Harkness Memorial tower is successful; otherwise the university smells of trade. If Yale had been built on a hill, it would probably be far less important and much more interesting. --Percy Marks in the Brown Daily Herald...