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...these young men progress, they draw slowly away from their chosen profession until it becomes merely the background of their success. They can be likened to the sky-scraper that rises majestically above its surroundings, yet if it were not for its foundation it could not be an actuality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREAT NAVY EIGHT IS FAVORED TODAY IN BASIN REGATTA | 5/29/1926 | See Source »

...these young men progress, they draw slowly away from their chosen profession until it becomes merely the background of their success. They can be likened to the sky-scraper that rises majestically above its surroundings, yet if it were not for its foundation it could not be an actuality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "WHY AN ENGINEERING TRAINING?" QUERIES SCIENTIFIC STUDENT | 5/29/1926 | See Source »

...work with knife and scraper preparing the bracelet encircled arm for exhibition, Mr. Cosgrove commented on the crude jewelry and pottery with which he was surrounded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bracelet Bedecked Arm Is Among Relics of New Mexico Aborigines Unearthed by Head of Peabody Museum Expedition | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

...Tower of Babel was something more than the first sky-scraper. It has gone down to posterity an everlasting symbol of the fatal consequences of idiom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIS MODERN LANGUAGE QUESTION | 3/14/1924 | See Source »

...Besides the prelude and its shadowgraphic representations, the stage setting in the second act is worthy of special mention. It is not often that one can find in New York such a romantic spot as is afforded by John Leighton's rooms on the top floor of a sky-scraper, overlooking, as it does, by night, the glaring lights of Broadway...

Author: By J. B. F. jr., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/15/1921 | See Source »

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