Word: trylon
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...year from the finish line, Manhattanites began to be aware of another ball-"biggest ever built by man" -which will be white, hollow, 200 ft. in diameter, 18 stories high, and the Theme Centre of the World's Fair. The steel frames of this Perisphere and the Trylon (a three-sided obelisk 700 ft. high) which will stand beside it, were already last week the most conspicuous structures at the Fair grounds...