Word: gettysburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anxiety for one's own skin; least of all of irresponsible, highly publicized debate by a minority of men of that University on whose doorstep the arms of Washington came into being; whose sons were foremost among the resolute, skilled and fire-hardened men who turned the tide at Gettysburg; whose undergraduates and graduates when out by thousands in 1917 saying, in the words of President Lowell's Baccalaureate Sermon to our class, "There is a sound of a going in the tops of the trees, and we must bestir ourselves ... believing that it is a call...
...last week, American Jubilee opened with it. Supercolossal it is: on a 300-ft. outdoor stage, in a blinding light, over 300 people march, waltz, sing, clown, wave flags, ride horseback, bicycles, automobiles, to the crashing of a tremendous band. Washington is inaugurated, Jenny Lind warbles, Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address, Lillian Russell & Diamond Jim Brady roll up to Rector's in a victoria, T. R. leads his Rough Riders, and in a stand-up-and-cheer finale, Mr. X is inaugurated President...
When William Henry Jackson was mustered out of the Army of the Potomac after the battle of Gettysburg, he drifted west, finally settled in Omaha. There he started a flourishing business in tintypes and stereopticon views. When the U. S. Geological Survey decided to chart the badlands of Wyoming, Photographer Jackson was asked to go along to take pictures. The pictures he took, of Wyoming's geysers and waterfalls, were directly responsible for Congress' decision to put the small rectangle of Yellowstone National Park...
...Gettysburg Address was mostly drowned out by staged crowd noises and by the palaver of two men in particular -one eating an apple...
...Gettysburg's casualties: "We can do nothing less than gratefully and reverently acknowledge the Divine favor which has watched over our lives and our homes. . . . But withal, we have been called to part with some. We have learned only of the following: Killed, Miss Virginia Wade, by our own sharpshooters; and Edward M. son of Alexander Woods, shot accidentally by his brother, while playing with a gun picked off the battlefield...