Word: towers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the early 15th Century, is adorned by two gigantesque figures, 14 ft. high, of Gog and Magog, the mythical giants who were supposed to have found their way into the King's service from "furren parts" and whom Ainsworth made famous with Og in his history of the Tower of London...
...rooms from Haverhill, Mass., furnished in that suave and hardy decorum that obtained when shipowners sat smoking in them, seeing in smoke their clippers beat round the Horn, their East Indiamen, under a cloudy tower of sail, treading the huddle of the seas...
Specifications. The architect's draft of this world's first educational skyscraper shows a great soaring edifice, Gothic in form but not in detail, rising tower above flanking tower, up and up along slender perpendicular lines to a blunt, shorn-off pinnacle 680 ft. above the rectangular base. The base is to be 360 by 260 ft., with four main arches, each 39 ft. high, opening into the heart of the pile. Batteries of high-speed elevators will be installed to race aloft through the tower to class rooms, laboratories, shops, libraries distributed on the building...
Significance. At Babel, once a tower rose, heavenbound. But its build ers disputed, talked strange tongues, went unto the ends of the earth, con founded for blasphemy. Having accumulated humility and wisdom, and translated their tongues each into the others', the races are now come to gether again in new towers. They aspire not to Heaven, but to Knowledge...
...plan of cloistering the Harvard Yard with a fringe of low buildings must pale into insignificance beside the gigantic vision of the new building for the University of Pittsburgh, 680 feet of towering steel and stone will make that university the highest seat of learning in the country. It will be one story higher than the Woolworth building, two higher than the Metropolitan Tower, and sixteen powerful elevators will whisk students from class to class...