Word: skyscraperism
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"It has been said that the skyscraper was forced upon New York by reason of the narrow limits of Manhattan Island. This entirely misses the point. Men build skyscrapers because they like skyscrapers. They concentrate them in a district because they wish to concentrate them. There are plenty of places...
So accustomed is everybody to thinking of Pirandello as a dramatist that his publishers on the jacket of this book have inscribed: "This is a book of fiction." It is a twelve-story selection from a projected 24-volume skyscraper entitled Stories for the Year Round. Like the Thousand & One...
Previous to this the making of models for a bridge or skyscraper had to wait until the plans were completed, and was in itself a long and laborious process. Such a model was not easily tested for stresses and strains. The researchers have compared results of the model tests with...
"Congestion is good. It's the best thing we have in New York. The glory of the skyscraper is that it has provided for the congestion so well. The larger the city, the broader is the opportunity for kindred spirits to find one another and to play and work...
On the Chicago Board of Trade wheat prices rose and fell and rose again, bounding up if:.1 2 or 3 per day. Sweating brokers within the paneled walls of their La Salle Street skyscraper were swamped with buy orders. They yelled and screamed their floor jargon: Give jo Deece...