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Traffic clogging was the major grievance of the anti-skyscraperites. It might be all very true that working "far aloft, away from distracting noise, breathing the pure ozone of the firmament" was desirable, but after all most working people liked to go home at night and it was not only no fun, but definitely dangerous, to have your ribs caved in during the morning and evening subway stampede. The New York World, in a series of editorials discouraging further skyscrapers, discovered perhaps the most formidable charge of all against them. It found experienced Realtor W. Bourke Harmon stating that only...
...could think of a lot of reasons for not liking it--could think of so many that he would finally decide not to take it seriously at all, and he doesn't. But for Mr. Tilden it is a different matter, as he has just left the tennis firmament and is in a new world which needs conquering. He knows what zest a really ambitious tournament adds to the occasion and hence is out to sharpen the spirit of competition in dramatic circles. One fears, however, for the outcome of Mr. Tilden in the event, that his all-American acting...
...York University is on the so-called football firmament. As yet you have to remark on the recent victories of the coming Eastern football champions, the noteworthy 30-0 whitewash given to Rutgers, etc. The students of New York University do not threaten to revoke their subscriptions to your most interesting periodical, because they like it too much, but still they feel that the meritorious record of the football team representing N. Y. U. deserves mention in your columns. Thank...
...tune of thousands of creaking necks, the Los Angeles soared over curious Manhattan, her third trip to the city but the premier under her new skipper, Lieutenant Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, one of the Navy's most experienced dirigible pilots. Pressing her untremulous way through the foggy May firmament, the silver bulk appeared at times to be perilously near the slim shafts of downtown skyscrapers. Assembled at their posts were 14 survivors of last summer's Shenandoah disaster. Not least among these was the stern-visaged commander. He succeeds Captain George W. Steele Jr., who returns...
...nature. But I will show him a new abyss. I will paint for him not only the visible universe, but all the immensity of nature that one can conceive, within the bounds of this epitome of an atom. He may see an infinity of universes each with its firmament, its planets, its earth, in the same proportion as in the visible world...