Word: skyscraperism
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Oldest department store in Philadelphia is Strawbridge & Clothier, established in 1862 by Quaker Justus C. Strawbridge who was joined by Quaker Isaac H. Clothier. The founders did a rushing business in Quaker shawls & bonnets which Strawbridge & Clothier still sells today. Only once in 73 years has it ever lost money...
In Manhattan, a woodcock flew into a skyscraper's electric sign and fell outside an office window of the National Association of Audubon Societies.
In Chicago, at the annual meeting of the Izaak Walton League, the liars' division competed along the usual lines for the prize (a key to a sardine can) for telling the tallest fish story. In Los Angeles, Engineer L. M. Crow went up to the roof of a 14...
Chancellor Bowman met the three pedagogs in the University Club. First thing he did was to take them outdoors and point to a beautiful Gothic skyscraper rising through the city's smoke from the University campus. That skyscraper is Pitt's Cathedral of Learning, whose exterior is done...
Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Jr., treats of the work of H. H. Richardson, the architect of Sever and Austin Halls here, and considers the skyscraper as one of our distinctive contributions to world-culture. Often Mr. Hitchcock sounds like Ruskin or Lewis Mumford, as when he speaks as a "functionalist": "The...