Word: skyscraperism
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Times have changed, however, and if recent press dispatches are to be credited, Dean Frederick Sheetz Jones has announced the possible erection of an academic skyscraper in the center of Yale campus which will overshadow Nathan Hale and Connecticut and even the hated purlieus of Hush Hall. Shades of Timothy...
The skyscraper had no sooner become a symbol for business progress and growth, than the Middle West entered the competition. W. C. Durant, then heading General Motors, decided to acquire the championship in office buildings for Detroit, and succeeded in doing , so with the enormous General Motors Building?at present...
Crawling around on the surface of the earth, burrowing underground, seem absurd occupations for creatures that have learned to fly. Soon men will move their houses and traffic into the upper air entirely. So predicted one Frederick Kiesler, young Viennese architect exhibiting at the Decorative Arts Exposition in Paris, last...
The Shock Punch. The unaccountable disinclination of a young lady of "society" to marry a prize fighter twisted this hero's life all out of shape. It pretty well interrupted the plot of the cinema and threw the action up on the bony heights of a rising skyscraper. From...
The Cathedral of (Earning (University of Pittsburgh) : 14,460,000 cu. ft. of space for $10,000,000, of which the brochure of Pittsburgh's skyscraper-to-be said: "To plant the spirit of achievement, ... by a great high building ... to interpret the spirit of Pittsburgh ... to build a memorial...