Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tower Magazine, sold in Woolworth stores. Tower's gumchewers' magazines are headed by able Publisher Catherine McNelis, who also publishes the intellectualist American Spectator, of which Dreiser was a onetime editor...
Decision of the Harvard Corporation to resume Sunday concerts on the Lowell House tower bells will be greeted with mixed feelings in various quarters. There are, of course, persons who like nothing better of a Sunday afternoon than the healthy clamor of a nice, big Russian carillon. There are others who can take their carillons or leave them, and there is a third group to whom the thing is exquisite torture...
With about twenty-five members present, the Dramatic Club held its first meeting of the year in the Lowell House Tower Room at 7.30 o'clock Monday night. Interested by the inauguration of a new system of procedure in meetings, the attendance at the gathering exceeded that of all previous ones. Formerly questions up for debate were handled in small committees prior to the general meeting of the club. Putting the new order into practice, the best part of an hour was spent in spirited discussion about a new play which the club is hopeful of obtaining for production...
...Gerard heard mountain fiddlers playing a tune from inside a rain spout on his barn. All over town tin roofs spat fire at the touch of a screwdriver, lights flashed on at 2 a. m. John La Mar, who sells melons, pointed an accusing finger at a steel tower which tapers 831 feet above the village, insisted: "I've watched clouds come rolling up until they reach that tower. Then they split in two and each part goes a different direction and we don't get a drop...
Owner of Mason's tower is Powel Crosley Jr.'s 500,000-watt Radio Station WLW, strongest broadcaster on earth. WLW pointed out that the people of Mason, if they wanted to install the proper apparatus, could probably snatch enough power out of the air to cook their meals, wash & iron their clothes, clean their rugs, run their radios...