Word: sightseers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anyone could guess. Less than two miles from North Beach stand the spindling 700-foot Trylon and the great round Perisphere of the New York World's Fair 1939. A thick slice of premium revenue will undoubtedly go to the transportation system that can pick up the sightseer at his home airport and deposit him in the shadow of the World's Fair's Big Apple...
...Lawrence river bed and garnishing it, like a great dish of trifle, with thousands of inviting islands. Since then many men have visited the Thousand Islands-legendary tribes of gravel-knoll dwellers, red-paint people; then Indians and white men-but until one day last week no summer sightseer could drive through them in his automobile...
...splendor, nor is he disappointed. A three-story Corinthian facade is a satisfactory glory for introduction. Within, a double marble stairway and murals by Sargent are also sufficiently impressive. Shakespearean folios and holographs of Keats, along with original Spectator papers, provide an atmosphere of gentility. Tingling with anticipation, the sightseer passes from these treasures into the dingy depths of the reading-room...
...buggy of an old Negro who had picked him up on the road from Jamestown, a young, history-loving sightseer jolted one day 20 years ago into Williamsburg, colonial and Revolutionary capital of Virginia. He found a ramshackle, sleepy town, its past glories all but forgotten, its historic buildings fallen to decay. Last week the same sightseer, now President of the U. S., rolled into Williamsburg by special train. This time he found a trim, spacious 18th Century village, complete with cobbled streets, grassy curbs, antique buildings...
...Science, heart of the Fair. Like other Fair buildings it is long, low, ultramodern, brilliantly painted-blocked and banded in orange, red. yellow, white. It is windowless, because sunlight is variable, electricity constant, and because windows are too expensive for buildings which will start coming down when the last sightseer leaves...