Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another part of the exhibit shows typical examples of New York sky-scrapers ranging from the classic Gothic of the Woolworth Building, to the ultra modern emphasis upon the vertical line as exemplified in the soaring tiers of windows, and strips of concrete of the Daily News Building. The graduated indents of the older Chanin Building are in sharp contrast to the sheer lift of the new Empire State Building. showing that transition is taking place rapidly...
...Harvard collection forms a continuous series from 1885 when dry plates were available. At that time Edward C. Pickering, the fourth Director, started with great zeal and enthusiasm on the large task of photographing the whole sky...
...plates a year. The Harvard collection is five or ten times the size of the next largest; but size is not its only distinction. The maintenance since 1890 of a station in the southern hemisphere has made the Harvard collection unique in that it comprehensively covers the whole sky...
...contrast to the red, green, and blue spires which now dominate the Cambridge sky-line, the new tower on the Adams House unit rising where Russell Hall stood, will be gilded, it was announced yesterday by J. P. Baxter, associate professor of History, and Master of Adams House...
...Harvard Observatory has received over thirty letters in answer to their announcement requesting all who saw the brilliant meteor in the southwestern sky last Wednesday night to write in details concerning size, shape, color, tail, duration of light, and accompanying noise. The notice even evoked a letter from Los Angeles describing an astral visitor, but since meteors are never visible until within 100 miles of the earth when there is sufficient atmosphere to afford combustion and the curvature of the earth is approximately seven inches for every mile, the meteor could not have been the one that P. M. Millman...