Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the direction of James M. Hawkes '26, instructor in German, the first meeting of the German Sing Song will be held tonight at 7 o'clock in the Lowell House Tower Room, it was announced yesterday. Smoking will be allowed at this meeting, which is to be informal. The program includes popular, drinking and student songs which will be sung in German. This meeting, which will be followed by others in the course of the year, is for the purpose of acquitting the student with that side of German life he does not find in the regular German courses...
Arrangements have been made to use the Lowell House Tower Room for regular business meetings every other week. The speaker's program, which will be announced shortly, will contain some of the most prominent liberals in the country who will address the club about every three weeks. In addition to these activities contact will be maintained with neighboring organizations...
...ticket in the first batch of 2,000,000 was sold and speculators were reselling them to disappointed latecomers at a 20% premium. Drawings to determine winners in the first batch will be held on Armistice Day in Paris' lofty, crescent-shaped Palais du Trocadero facing the Eiffel Tower. Every holder of a block of ten tickets will receive a 20% rebate if none wins a prize-this feature especially appealing to thrifty Frenchmen. Waiters, taxi-drivers and petty shopkeepers to whom even 500 francs looks big, were asking each other excitedly last week, "What would you do with...
...Mexican hacienda toward the end of the last century. A peon and his fiancee go to their ranch owner for permission to marry. One of the hacendado's guests rapes the girl. The peon strikes her assaulter, then tries with four friends to retrieve the girl from a tower into which she has been tossed. They fail and scamper away, pursued by a posse which includes the hacendado's daughter, who gets shot dead when the posse catches up with the fugitives. The three fugitives who are captured are disposed of by the "horse torture." Servants bury them...
...flagman sprinted back with red lantern and track torpedoes. Several minutes behind No. 8 out of Binghamton was a fast milk train (No. 2). At the throttle was Engineer Martin ("Biddy") King, 62, heavyset, red-faced veteran of the Erie service. As he approached B D tower, the block signal changed from red (stop) to yellow (caution). An air whistle tooted in his cab as part of the automatic train control system. To acknowledge that signal and keep his train rolling, Engineer King pulled down a small lever. He knew he was in dangerous territory, that the running rules required...