Word: towers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moment later he saw that it was no small boat, but a submarine. The steamer quivered. She had run on the port side of the submarine just forward of the conning tower and had stove a deep hole into the undersea ship...
...search the dark waters below-and then suddenly burned out-leaving the sea once again in undisturbed darkness. In six or seven minutes boats were lowered. Three men were found in the water, seamen from the S-51 caught from their bunks and vomitted up through the conning tower by the sea water pouring through the hole...
...Tower of Lies. In any realistic cinema, a newborn child is referred to merely as "another mouth to feed." The mouth, in this grim reproduction of Swedish farm life, is a certain Goldie (Norma Shearer) who buys a farm for her parents with funds obtained from a dubious source. Miss Shearer is fair in both senses of the word; Lon Chaney is the dubious source...
...Hemminger, R. F. Hodges, Mark Hopkins, T. W. Hubbard, J. C. Hubbard, L. Hutchins, T. F. Kane, H. J. Kouffman, E. Martin McAusland G. H. Norris, J. B. Parkerson, J. E. Robinson, F. C. Sidney, E. M. Stillson, B. D. Strand, A. R. Sweezy, J. A. Tilt, W. T. Tower, Norman, Vaughn, W. D. Whitmore, S. M. Williams, D. F. Wolfe...
...London Times appeared the picture of a diving tower. It was so tall that few men would have cared to leap from it, still fewer to leap from it entwined about someone else, still fewer if their bones were old and their years numbered over 70. Yet two curmudgeons-Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny, 78, and Otto Hagburgh, 71-lately performed this feat in England. The London Times' photo showed then in midair...