Word: landmark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very respectable Limerick about the consternation of the young lady from Back Bay who once threw a Transcript away expresses it exactly. The Boston Evening Transcript is a landmark and an institution, and as such not to be defiled. Its pages, which come from the press smelling more strongly of printers' ink than do those of other newspapers, exhale a reminiscent fragrance. They are an assurance that no traditional detail will over be lightly omitted, from the Alpha of the financial advertisement on page one, to the Omega of the obituaries. It is unthinkable that a silly girl should unreflectingly...
...friend, a building missed by few, and now supplanted by a modern aedifice that never will quite be able to recapture the dim religious light of its antiquated predecessor. But this was no time to think longer of old Appleton Chapel. On stormy nights even the new landmark will pass out of sight in the greyness of the night, just as the older building used to do, until, in fact, its unobtrusiveness had wiped it away from the slate of remembrance of all but a few faithful supporters...
...colonial landmark which once housed George Washington has now become the headquarters for the 61,000 living Harvard graduates...
...whether he believes in ghosts he would answer: "I am prepared to consider evidence and accept it if it satisfies me." He thinks he will probably write no more ghost sto ries. These he made up mostly for his own amusement; one ("A Neighbour's Landmark") for an Eton periodical; one ("Wailing Well") to scare the Eton Boy Scouts as they sat around their campfire...
...making mistakes,, big ones. Obviously his sense of direction was not infallible. The way his mind worked-and this seems the probable method of homing birds and animals-must be this: without his being conscious of the details he was able to register automatically every turn he made, every landmark he saw, every fixed sound and smell he perceived...