Word: woolworth
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...Woolworth Building has 54 stories...
...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...
...James, is encumbered with collegiate atmosphere. The actors just struggle through the afternoon of commencement day at Columbia, and in spite of the many unnatural lines they manager to give the gallery a great deal of amusement. After the scene shifts to a business office in the Woolworth Building, the blemishes in the dialogue reoccur only when the principals make artificial speeches about having been "old pals" in the good old college days. The improbabilities of a business farce do not matter if they are funny, and after the first act "We've Got to Have Money" is funny enough...
...Bronx and back, hundreds of thousands of busy New Yorkers forgot office and factory and stared skyward until their necks ached. By a curious trick of vision, explainable by the ship's tremendous length, the ZR-3 at one time seemed to graze the very top of the Woolworth Building, though in reality it hung never less than 3,000 feet above the city...
...Slipping out of the servants' entrance of the Burden home, the Baron bounded into an automobile, was driven to Manhattan. At the Pennsylvania Station he took a subway to Park Place, walked to the Woolworth Building, was taken skywards by a neatly-uniformed and much impressed "indoor aviator." From the top the Baron himself became impressed with the wonders that were revealed to him. From the Woolworth Building he paid a visit to the New York Port Society, inspected the building, chatted with the seamen. He was much interested to learn that British and American seamen sing in unison...