Word: parks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Realtor W. Bourke Harmon stating that only the first two stories of buildings, however tall, produced revenue; the stories above, however many, do well to pay taxes and interest on the investment. Early Manhattan skyscrapers-the first Equitable Building (seven stories, 1869, with its "vertical railroad"), the gold-domed Park Row Building, the 21-story Flatiron Building, the 41-story Singer Building (1907) and finally that 60-story marvel that dwarfed everything save the imagination of the man who thought of selling things for five and ten cents-all these paid for themselves in advertising value. For later imitations...
...badly dressed with all the old dance steps and shake-your-finger-at-the-audience tricks that have ever been seen. There are some very catchy tunes(especially "Cross Your Heart", that everybody hums as he files out to the street. But by the time you get to park Street they're forgotten
...course the reader remembers, with gusto. The museum trip continues. ". . . And when Michigan Avenue [the book is dedicated to Chicagoans who turned the century] was a dirt road leading south from the greasy river, past brownstone respectability to prairie pioneering in those windblown, grass-grown suburbs, Oakland, Hyde Park, the Midway? And how Chicago sprang up and spread out, so that when the World's Fair opened, with the world's biggest this and the world's finest that, it was a city, with plenty of black smoke and red light neighborhoods and corrupt politicians to prove...
...last of this half year's series of religious talks will be given by the Reverend Harry Emerson Fosdick, Minister of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, New York City. The Reverend Dr. Fosdick will speak on "The Future of the Church" on December 12 at 4 o'clock in the afternoon in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building...
...sheap from the frivolous goals is no small one. No one cares to admit, except possibly to his intimates, that his presence in college is but a conventional period of growth: such, a condition might very well be-true but few will boast of it Whether or not Dr. Park is over-emphasizing a contemporary disease, it is difficult to say. Certainly, in spite of their flippancy, his remarks cut deep, emanating as they do from a man vitally connected with modern education. As for his suggested panacea--if it were applicable it would probably prove efficient; but he demands...