Word: landmark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wine of the Puritans) he has risen to a commanding height as a U. S. critic. Beginning in that work to examine "our inherited cultural resources," he has occupied himself ever since with his penetrating analyses of the dilemmas of creative genius in U. S. society, establishing a critical landmark when he wrote America's Coming of Age in 1915 and producing a native classic with The Ordeal of Mark Twain five years later. Last week Van Wyck Brooks offered the first volume of a literary history of the U. S. that surpassed all his previous books and that...
Texas & Monopoly: ". . . Your farmers were among the first to rebel against exploitation by the railroads. In a period of monopoly, combinations, overcapitalization, high rates, poor service and discrimination against the small shipper, you established a landmark in the regulation of public utilities for the good of their users...
...Montgomery St., San Francisco, stands the pillared portico of Crocker First National Bank, a rich, conservative institution that is something of a landmark in West Coast banking. It was founded as a private banking house in 1883 by the late Charles Crocker, one of the quadrumvirate that built Southern Pacific RR.* He wanted to leave his son a bank. Son William Henry Crocker began as a clerk, was made president ten years later. Meantime the bank had taken out a national charter, and for the next 40 years prospered exceedingly on the best West Coast accounts. In 1926 it gained...
...time, but she soon formed her own touring company, so built around her own personality that she succeeded in spite of ragged musical accompaniment, shoddy, second-rate scenery. The Diaghilev company was peerless so long as it had Tamara Karsavina and Nijinsky who, according to Author Kirstein, established a landmark more with his stark choreography (L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune, Le Sacre du Printemps) than with his sensational leaps or his unsurpassed entrechats...
Among the important publications which the library does keep are "The Boston Courier," a hotel periodical; "The Groton Landmark"; the "New Militant," a socialist publication; Giustizia e Liberta," another socialist paper; and "The Watertown Tribune and Enterprise." Certainly this list is no more important from a research point of view than a Hearst publication...