Word: underground
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Crawling around on the surface of the earth, burrowing underground, seem absurd occupations for creatures that have learned to fly. Soon men will move their houses and traffic into the upper air entirely. So predicted one Frederick Kiesler, young Viennese architect exhibiting at the Decorative Arts Exposition in Paris, last week. Kiesler had invented nothing, discovered nothing; but his artist-dream seemed hardly less logical and likely than did the skyscraper, the ocean-crossing dirigible, the hovering helicopter, 25 years ago. In the Kiesler dream, enormous steel towers arise, honeycombed with elevators. Hundreds of feet in the air vast platforms...
According to the provisions of the parliamentary act under which the road was built, it may not be broken up by electric, gas or water companies, or the post office authorities for underground telegraph and telephone cables...
...They are," he said, "the most northern people in the world, yet they are just as keen as we are. They live, not in snow huts according to popular conception, but underground in rock houses...
...There will be no automobiles in its streets. They will run in tubes underground. Passengers in subways will be shot about like merchandise at 90 miles an hour. To vertiginous elevators and escalators will be added rooms, suites that slide about horizontally," said Mr. H. W. Corbet...
...silken fabrics, 700 books written in seven languages including Hindu and Chinese, bloodstained women's pigtails that suggested scalping. Earthenware established 200 B. C. as the probable date of the civilization to which tombs made of squared and planed logs, found at depths of 24 to 42 ft. underground, belonged...