Word: 72nd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chief Justice Taft, less massive, less twinkling but no less human after aggravating illnesses in his 72nd year just ended. He summered as usual quietly on Murray...
Active, vigorous, fast-moving, the Chanin Brothers have made many a contribution to Manhattan's new midtown skyline. Their Chanin Building "56 Stories of Sunlight" has been completed for only a few months. In April, they bought the Majestic Hotel, Central Park West, between 71st and 72nd streets. Here they will soon begin a 45-story apartment hotel...
...Chicago River. And last week New York City's Board of Estimate finally approved plans for a driveway, which will ameliorate land values as well as living standards, up the western shore of Manhattan Island from Canal Street to 59th Street. A linking boulevard from 59th Street to 72nd Street, where Riverside Drive begins, had already been approved. Construction of the whole was authorized to begin with the New Year and promised in completion for July...
...prominent, long-to-be-remembered outrage occurred in San Antonio last year on the final day of the Texas Open Golf Championship. Bobby Cruickshank, diminutive but skillful, came to the 72nd green, found a short putt between himself and victory. The gallery politely turned to stone as Cruickshank commenced to aim. Not a sound was heard as Cruickshank continued to aim. Long, noiseless seconds passed while Cruickshank aimed some more. It was to be an important, lucrative putt. As Cruickshank drew back his putter, a horrid dissonance shattered the atmosphere. From the branches of a nearby tree came thick words...
...Mitchell, President of the Illinois Merchants Trust Co. Last week, on the walls of his bank, in gold letters several feet high, he set up a creed. The mural apothegms were none of them original, but they added no mean lustre to the commemoration of Banker Mitchell's 72nd birthday, his 52nd year in banking. They ran as follows...