Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held five miles south of the Loop. Approaching this year's Fair from the heart of town the visitor's first sight will be two 625-ft. steel towers joined by cables, soaring up between the Soldier Field stadium and Lake Michigan?' This is the Sky Ride (40? a head in 5-m.p.h. "rocket" cars) whence the entire layout can be surveyed...
...really done most of the work from all angles. He has not permitted money to be spent until it was in hand, has never let the Fair's bank balance fall below $1,000,000. As they look over the multicolored Fair buildings and up at the Sky Ride's soaring towers, Chicagoans know that they really are monuments to Brother Rufus, the quiet member of the Dawes quartet...
Alexander Tsfasman stands for jazz in Russia. Some of his compositions: "Jolly Blues." "Sky Trot/' "Willy Brest...
Under an agreement made with Chicago World's Fair officials, Al Simmons, Jimmy Dykes. "Red" Kress consented to try for a world's catching championship by catching baseballs thrown to them from the top of a 625-foot Sky Ride tower (see p. 14). When a mathematician found that the balls would be traveling 136.80 miles an hour, would strike with an impact of 6,604 foot pounds, White Sox Owner Louis A. Comiskey refused to risk his players...
...Army hymn: Long-eared preachers come out every night, And try to tell you what's wrong and what's right. When asked about something to cat, They will answer with voices so sweet: (Chorus) You will cat bye and bye In that glorious land above, the sky. ('Way up high.) Work and pray, live on hay. You'll get pie in the sky when...