Word: tower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Milton Bennett Medary, 55, of Philadelphia, architect (Valley Forge Chapel, "Singing Tower" at Mountain Lake, Fla., Philadelphia's Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Building, Penn Athletic Club Building, workingmen's villages at Neville Island, Pittsburgh, Bethlehem; consultant architect, Cornell University, Mount Vernon, Roosevelt Memorial Association); in Philadelphia...
...They recalled that Liverpool is already the site of a great Anglican cathedral, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, under construction since 1903. Modern in adaptation, it is however definitely Gothi-cized?a rugged, buttressed mass, patterned with ogival decoration, which will ultimately surge upward in an enormous square tower. Presumably the Catholic Archbishop wished to confront the neighboring Anglican diocese with a different architecture as well as creed...
...your issue of July 15 you give a list of the United States cities which have buildings of 21 or more stories. In this list you state that Boston has 65, the same as Chicago. Boston has only two-the Custom House Tower, 495 feet, and the United Shoe Machinery Building in process of erection, 27 stories. A third one is projected comprising 22 stories. There is one of 15 stories and two or three of 14 and a large number from ten to twelve...
...miles by means of rockets that to many a Clark student he is only a tradition. They call him the moon man, in the inaccurate belief that he is trying to reach the moon with his missiles. Last week, Tradition Goddard detonated very loudly. From a 40-ft. steel tower he fired his latest rocket, a huge steel cylinder 9 ft. long by 2½ ft. diameter. A new propellant sent it whizzing from the ground. It rose straight up about a quarter-mile. There the fuel seemed to ignite all at once, instead of in a stream, as planned...
Only two of the sunken crew escaped, her commander, Lieutenant R. J. Gardner, and Telegraphist Sydney Cleburne, who happened to be in the conning tower. Three men were lost from the L-12, which was sucked down 40 feet after the collision but bobbed up again and made port without assistance...