Word: bossom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...criticize them, last week visited an extraordinary exhibition in a Manhattan building modestly called "Corona Mundi" (crown of the world) on Riverside Drive. It was an exhibition of skyscrapers*- models, photographs and designs -assembled by an architect whose livelihood and reputation are in the building of skyscrapers, Alfred C. Bossom. When Manhattan should have gazed its fill, the exhibition was to go on tour...
Architect Bossom said ingenuously: "The American people build skyscrapers because they are unsophisticated." Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett, in a written debate held by the New York Times, suggested what monuments skyscrapers would be to humanity if anything should ever happen to the race: "The explorer of a thousand years hence might piece together the fragments of our life gathered in one skyscraper and know the whole as though he had lived among us, from the cafeteria and nickel-in-the-slot telephones on the first floor, to the final office on the ultimate last floor...
...Donald Bossom Fleming '25, of West Newton...
Alfred C. Bossom, Manhattan architect, has invented a device for saving persons accidentally locked in bank vaults from suffocation. It consists of a tank holding a 24-hour supply of oxygen. The locking of the door automatically switches on an electric light which illuminates a card of directions for the person locked in. The card tells how to turn the stopcock of the tank, which releases the oxygen gradually as needed. Mr. Bossom will not patent his device because of its humanitarian need. The first one is being made for a Galveston, Tex., bank. Many vault imprisonments which...