Word: basement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides the private rooms or laboratories for 100 professors, tutors, instructors, and graduate workers, there will be an oak paneled library with adjacent stack rooms to house 8,000 physical books, and opposite to it a panelled conference room. In the basement, from which no windows lead, will be four special laboratories for experimentation in light and color. Here also will be a sound-proof room for work in sound, a room devoted to making vacuums, and two X-ray rooms. Two other X-ray rooms will be on the second floor and the four together will house...
...basement of the building the present machine shops will be considerably improved, and enlarged, to provide for increased equipment. When they are completed these shops will occupy nearly all of the eastern end of the building...
...building stands on Divinity Avenue next to the Semitic Museum and is a highly decorative structure in brick, cement, and marble, consisting of two main stories, a penthouse and a two-floored basement. Around the outside between the first and second stories are twelve round carved marble plaques set in the walls, depicting the signs of the zodiac. On. entering, one is faced by a wide marble staircase similar to the one in Widener but not as large. Paneling and painting are now being done in the interior...
...long room, one an oak paneled library, the other a place to be used as, a map room. Other maps will be housed in the special penthouse for charts. The rest of the roof will have a stone balustrade and will be open for observations. In the basement will be two floors for book-stacks for the housing of the 80,000 books, many of which have already been delivered. Elevator machinery and an elaborate ventilating system have also been placed in the basement. The other rooms in the building will be offices and private workshops for the staff...
...editing and headlines. Copy-readers, some in the service of the paper for decades, leaned across their desks to see for themselves. With the speed of bad news, the word flashed from the tower of the ugly, gilt-domed old Pulitzer Building to the press rooms in the basement. Startled clerks from the circulation office, grimy printers from below, made for the city room to confirm the horrid report. . . . Was this, after 48 years, to be the end of the great, crusading World? Were their jobs not, as they had confidently believed, held secure by the will...