Word: landmark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sketches before they hit on the ultimate starkness of sphere and pyramidal form. Neither had ever been built before; both would certainly influence other World's Fair architecture to avoid superfluous dressing. And though neither the Sphere nor the symmetrical Trylon alone could serve as a direction-pointing landmark to guide wanderers on the Fair grounds, side by side they will...
...Walter A. Jessup, president of the Foundation, commented in a foreword to the report: "The study is a landmark in the passing of the system of units and credits, which, useful as it was a third of a century ago, is not good enough...
...museum's show of Winslow Homer in 1936 was a landmark in the recent appreciation of that 19th-Century artist, and year ago the museum made news with a lively exhibition of Luks, Bellows, Henri and other important U. S. painters of the early 1900s (TIME, Feb. 22). Last week the Whitney pulled off a triumph in a field where triumph was not expected: U. S. landscape painting of the 19th Century...
...continues on his journey, to amuse himself he thinks aloud of the personalities and events which each landmark brings to his mind. Occasionally his thoughts are poetry, other times merely the smooth flowing, refreshing prose for which he has become known to such a wide range of readers. Every subject from philosophy to the sports of the English countryside are the topics of his thought...
...Philadelphia, New Orleans, Mississippi, North & South Dakota are scheduled for publication. In February the Writers' Project will wind up New England with guides to New Hampshire and Connecticut and will publish its first big highway tour, U. S. 1, tracing the 2,000-mile road mile by mile, landmark by landmark, from Calais, Me. to Key West, Fla. Some time in the spring the Project will release Whaling Masters in Massachusetts, U. S. 30-The Oregon Trail, The Ocean Highway. Also scheduled are State guides that are to be brought out as they are completed until every State, Puerto...