Seventy-four

My great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was a bricklayer and died in seventeen seventy-four, at the age of forty.

My dad said the shahada at seventy-four.

Tom weighs seventy-four kilos.

Many questions are left unanswered about Kahn. Yet, the film helps tell a very interesting story about a very important man. Louis Kahn died in nineteen seventy-four. Yet his influence lives on. While teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, he trained many future builders. Some students have become important architects. And Kahn’s architecture has remained fresh and timeless.

the ocean stream / Here and there studded with a seventy-four [...].

For all the world like a seventy-four of the line, / Riding the swell and firing off Finisterre.