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...museum is 234 feet across the front and 123 feet deep. The front portion along Quincy Street will contain two stories of exhibition galleries with a top light furnishing the light for the upper story. Behind the exhibition part of the building is an in interior court, 57 by 44 feet, surrounded on four sides by two stories of arcades built of Italian Travertine. The rear portion will contain the library, Class 'rooms, and executive offices. A night entrance in the rear of the building will make it possible to open the lecture hall in the evenings without throwing open...
...again New York counts on a new "world's tallest building," this time the Christian-Missionary Building, on Broadway between 122nd and 123rd St. Contracts for its foundation excavations were let last week. It will spire upward for 800 ft-"8 ft. more than the Woolworth Building"; will contain on the ground floor an undenominational church and a dining room seating 2,000, above 4,500 hotel rooms which will rent for not more than $21 weekly, and on its top (65th) story a hospital. Within it drinking and smoking, and possibly Sunday journals, will be forbidden. Ten percent...
...close the book, finally, without a truer mental picture of pioneer days in America. Crèvecoeur was not a historian; he was a chronicler of unrelated episodes. He was an observer whose main interest was not in ideas or causes but in people. His writings before the Revolution contain a picture of the life of the average American community in the middle colonies; his sketches during the conflict picture such communities convulsed...
Herewith are excerpts from letters come to the desks of the editors during the past week. They are selected primarily for the information they contain either supplementary to or corrective of news previously published in TIME...
Herewith are excerpts from letters come to the desks of the editors during the past week. They are selected primarily for the information they contain either supplementary to or corrective of news previously published in TIME...