Word: gettysburg
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dodger fans that game looked like the season's Gettysburg, complete with Pickett's charge, valiant but in vain. The Dodgers swept the series, and ran their winning streak to 13 games before losing three straight to the Cubs. At week's end they were still seven games out front. (On the same day last year the Cards were 1½ games behind...
...Robert E. Lee, after a lifetime in uniform, became the able president of Washington College (now Washington & Lee) in Lexington, Va. And even in the Herald Tribune's home town, the president who had ruled City College for the longest stretch was Alexander Webb, a Union general at Gettysburg. Columbia's 85-year-old President Emeritus Nicholas Murray Butler had no doubts about the matter. Said he: "General Eisenhower's great ability . . . in dealing with world problems [is] precisely what the world needs today in the administration of a great university...
Indians, Triplets, Atoms. The Library of Congress has become a storehouse for such U.S. treasures as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Gettysburg Address. It is also in the business of publishing books, recording folk music and putting on concerts, distributing documentary films and textbooks...
...Yankee Twang. Captain Blackford, meanwhile, had fought at Bull Run, bivouacked along the Rappahannock, marched to the Confederacy's high-water mark at Gettysburg and returned with the ebbing tide. In victory or defeat, he decided, Pennsylvania held no charms for a Virginian. "Never in my life have I seen so many ugly women." Furthermore, the "men, women and children are all afflicted with a yankee twang...
...BLACKWOOD Gettysburg...