Word: landmark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he cannot objectify what suits him personally, that he can find nothing static, nothing permanent, nothing resembling the unity and coherence of medieval times. Thus it was that he made out of President Roosevelt's masterfully worded and perfectly times Message on the State of the Union "a landmark in the history of Western thought...
...preserve the atmosphere of the famous landmark, the slate from old Hemenway's roof and its original weather vane are used in the new building...
...year 1922 was a big year for modern literature. In that year appeared T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland, Joyce's Ulysses, Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt, the first (English-translated) volume of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. The other literary landmark of that year was a startling encyclopedia, edited by Harold Stearns, called Civilization in the United States, the collective work of some 30 outspoken "young intellectuals," including such names as H.L. Mencken, Van Wyck Brooks, Lewis Mumford. The startling thing about the book was the contributors' pessimism. While the press, economists and politicians glorified...
Keezer spends a large part of each day around the Yard and the dormitories keeping up his contacts and waiting for business. He himself is something of a landmark, with his tweed cap, standing at the gate of the Union and greeting the entering and emerging Freshmen...
...nearing completion is the new Hemenway Gymnasium on Massachusetts avenue near the Law School. Built to replace the old Hemenway Gymnasium, which was a Harvard landmark from 1878 until its removal last year to make room for the Littauer Center, the new structure will contain squash courts and other exercise facilities...