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...city, the broader is the opportunity for kindred spirits to find one another and to play and work together. The wonder of New York is that it is the first place in the world where a man can work within a ten-minute walk of a quarter of a million people. Think how this expands the field from which we can choose our friends, our co-workers and contacts, how easy it is to develop a constant interchange of thought. I don't see why anybody anxious to see civilization and culture develop to its highest standard should complain...
...built by Stone & Webster for Union Electric Light & Power Co. (North American subsidiary). St. Louisans and Kansas Citizens will have summer shacks and duck shooting lodges along its 1,300 mi. of shore line. St. Louisans, who will consume a large part of the dam's annual 425 million kilowatt hours of electricity, also hope that Lake of the Ozarks will temper their city's blistering summers...
Three hundred cheerful, sociable, well-dressed Chicagoans of the class which, well-off mentally as well as financially, is out to make Chicago a great cultural centre as well as the country's biggest railroad junction, assembled last week in a new million-dollar building on the citified "campus" of the University of Chicago. Henry and Stanley Field, Rufus Cutler Dawes, Thomas Elliott Donnelley, Harold Higgins Swift, et ul., mingled with a learned collection of archaeologists and other scientists. Neatly bespatted, with waxed mustache almost as shiny as his horn-rimmed spectacles, the Egyptian Minister...
...building is John Davison Rockefeller Jr.'s latest munificence to the University of Chicago. The Oriental Institute is its name and behind it lies an endowment of between twelve and 14 million dollars, the entire income of which is at Dr. Breasted's disposal to pursue and make permanent his life work: the study of the birth of civilization in the eastern end of the Mediterranean Basin...
Sargon's Bull. No great number of Chicagoans, even of the select 300 who attended the Oriental Institute's opening, could begin to comprehend the myriad minute implications of the million-&-one mummies, skeletons, sculptures, potteries, cuneiform tablets and other miscellaneous objects with which the new building was nearly packed. Yet even an early Swift or Cudahy would have understood and taken solid satisfaction from Dr. Breasted's prize exhibit - a monster, 40-ton stone bull, set up in the main (Egyptian) hall facing the big bronze gates. No U. S. bull was ever like this...