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Word: toweringly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...peace . . . This fact is ineluctable, indubitable and inescapable . . . Only the Allied Control Council and the Foreign Ministers Council may correctly deal with the problem of Germany . . . If this question is not in relation to Germany, what is it? In the stratosphere? In the clouds? In an ivory tower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Of Good Faith | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...York City's Greenwich Village Humane League, but Faith herself went right on being a simple church cat and mother. She still curled in dignity at the rector's feet as he conducted service in a makeshift chapel at the foot of the old church tower. Last week Rector Ross posted on the church tower a notice that "the bravest cat in the world"† was gone at last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Bravest | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

When University officials discovered that the spring under Memorial Hall did not have enough water to cool both Houghton and Lamont libraries, they had to fall back on city water cooled with a tower...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houghton Keeps Cool, But Widener Will Fan Lamont | 10/5/1948 | See Source »

Houghton is already cool, Widener has no expectations, and Lamont is under construction. But to air-condition Lamont Library workmen are installing a water tower and several hundred feet of pipe in Widener...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houghton Keeps Cool, But Widener Will Fan Lamont | 10/5/1948 | See Source »

Placing such a tower on Lamont's roof was viewed in the same light as using John Harvard's statue for a bicycle rack. Fortunately, however, architects noted in Widener's cavernous cellar and broad roof an admirable location for bulky air-conditioning machinery. They also pointed out that the great lengths of pipe needed for the Widener location of equipment is still far cheaper than adding 1000 square feet of space to Lamont's basement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houghton Keeps Cool, But Widener Will Fan Lamont | 10/5/1948 | See Source »

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