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Skyscraper   /skˈaɪskrˌeɪpər/   Listen
Skyscraper

noun
1.
A very tall building with many stories.






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"Skyscraper" Quotes from Famous Books



... road cut, cliff, bank, excavation, or quarry shows rocks and minerals. Railroad cuts, rock pits, dump piles around mines, building sites—they'll all yield specimens. Some of the best mineral specimens collected in New York City came from skyscraper and subway excavations. Help a New England farmer clear his field and you'll have more rocks than you know what ...
— Let's collect rocks & shells • Shell Oil Company

... women—the society of New York in ante-bellum days. But in the modern relentless march uptown of commercialism, all that remained of its one-time glory had been swept away. The house fell into decay and ruin, and while waiting for it to be pulled down entirely, to make room for an up-to-date skyscraper, the present owners had rented it just to pay the taxes. And a queer collection of tenants they had secured. A quick-lunch-counter man occupied the basement: a theatrical costumer had the front parlor, with armor and wigs, and other bizarre ...
— The Easiest Way - A Story of Metropolitan Life • Eugene Walter and Arthur Hornblow

... reach a point where all 10 will recognize the substitution. The same holds true of the shortening or lengthening of the time-interval between the two presentations. The third variable factor is the similarity itself. If instead of one church, not another church, but a theatre or a skyscraper is shown, that is, if the similarity value of 80 per cent sinks down to a similarity of 60 per cent or 50 per cent, the number of those who recognize the substitution will again become larger; if, on the ...
— Psychology and Industrial Efficiency • Hugo Muensterberg

... a futile one. The tremendous mountain of ebony rock appeared to have been driven up out of the earth during some volcanic disturbance, and as we stumbled blindly along we thought it would be easier to scale the outside wall of a New York skyscraper than the slippery sides of the ...
— The White Waterfall • James Francis Dwyer

... ostler) Well, Dick, what sort of a stud, hey? any thing rum, a ginger or a miller, three legs or five, got by Whirlwind out of Skyscraper? Come, ...
— The English Spy • Bernard Blackmantle



Words linked to "Skyscraper" :   building, Petronas Towers, World Trade Center, twin towers, Empire State Building, Sears Tower, WTC, edifice



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