Word: skyscrapersful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
¶ In Manhattan this week 15,000 elevator operators and service employes struck, tying up midcity skyscrapers, including the 102-story Empire State Building; more stood ready to tie up many another building.
Unlike the skyscrapers further down Manhattan Island, Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine has been a long time agrowing. Already some $16,000,000 and 52 years of labor have gone into it-and it is still only two-thirds built. Last week the Right Rev. William...
And for ordinary people, the war in Europe ended-not when they heard the hoarse voice of the radio, nor when they saw paper blizzards falling between skyscrapers, nor even when they ate their first food in freedom-but slowly and silently, by degrees, somewhere in each man's...
In Manhattan, the most effervescent U.S. city, the carnival sights and sounds bubbled spontaneously, then subsided, then fizzed again. For a while on Monday, torn paper and ticker tape by the ton fluttered from skyscrapers, and the streets turned white. Half a million people clotted Times Square, sober and undemonstrative...
* When Hoffmann was taking the real Hitler's picture in front of the Eiffel Tower in 1940, the Fiihrer reportedly cracked: "Take this one, Hoffmann; then the next one in Buckingham Palace and the next in front of the skyscrapers."