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Definition of Skyscrapers
1. skyscraper [n] - See also: skyscraper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skyscrapers
Literary usage of Skyscrapers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1915)
"Ind 82:541 Je 28 '15 Social conditions House on Henry street. LD Wald. Atlan 115:
240-50 Ag '15 In the rear of New York's skyscrapers. ..."
2. Workers of the Nation: An Encyclopedia of the Occupations of the American by Gilson Willets (1903)
"Iron and steel buildings, fireproof structures, skyscrapers—these are familiar
to the dweller in cities; but in all the vast region outside the great cities ..."
3. Proceedings for (1907)
"FOUNDATIONS FOE Skyscrapers IN NEW YORK CITY. BY JOHN W. DOTY,* CE WITH DISCUSSION
BY GEORGE W. TILLSON, WINFRED H. ROBERTS, WILLIAM T. DOYLE, ..."
4. The Technical World Magazine (1910)
"... the largest of nil skyscrapers. Singer, also, is higher than St. Peter's,
rising six hundred and twelve feet from the sidewalk. ..."
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