Word: eiffel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ralph L. Hayes, rector of Rome's North American College, interpreting. To Pius XI, Mr. Smith offered a ten-inch gold model of the Empire State Building, volunteering the dimensions of his skyscraper when the Holy Father confessed that he had never ascended a structure higher than the Eiffel Tower. The Pope presented a silver-framed pastel of himself autographed "Toto corde benedicens,"- a pearl rosary and a relic of the Little Flower to Mrs. Smith, and a Good Shepherd medal to both...
...turned to sculpture under the little-known French Artist Soitoux. The gigantic always fascinated him: his projects grew bigger and bigger, a habit which brought him into contact more with young engineers than young sculptors. Ferdinand (Suez Canal) de Lesseps was a friend of his; with Alexandre Gustave (Tower) Eiffel he was even more intimate...
...Sculptor Bartholdi expected. By the time the Philadelphia Exposition opened all that was ready was Liberty's torch, right hand and wrist, but that was imposing enough. An armature for a statue 152 ft. high was beyond the capabilities of Sculptor Bartholdi. He called in his friend Engineer Eiffel - already planning the tallest tower the world had ever seen - who solved the problem by designing a skeleton for Liberty in the form of a central steel mast round which are wrapped two spiral staircases, braced like a camera by a quadruped of four iron pylons. On this framework...
Although it contains a suburban little romance, oddly out of key with its world-shaking social events, Things to Come is most interesting in its depiction of ruin Novelist Wells's imagination flourishes when he visualizes gas bombs falling, children being killed, Brooklyn Bridge destroyed, the Eiffel Tower collapsing, rats and wild dogs roaming the streets. But when he comes to imagine the productive days of the reconstruction he can only dream vaguely of semi-subterranean cities flooded with artificial light, peopled by graceful creatures in shapely garments growing agitated over the thought of a flight around the Moon...
...Baltimore ball team during the World Series of the 'go's against Boston. Two years later he enlisted in the U. S. Navy, thus made his way to the Paris exposition of 1900. Pride of that exposition was the tallest thing in the world, M. Eiffel's tower. Jules Charbneau's taste ran in the opposite direction. He bought with his first savings a miniature medal, a jeweled bird and a very small meerschaum pipe, cornerstones of his present collection...