Word: landmark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because its crowd of corpses marked the highest tide of the Confederate invasion of the North, because it is still the best-preserved battlefield in the U. S., and finally because Abraham Lincoln made a speech there, Gettysburg remains a famed landmark in U. S. history. The story of that three-day battle between Lee's veterans and Meade's Army of the Potomac has been told many & many a time since 1863 without growing older in the telling. Author Kantor's version, an attempt to describe the battle as it might have appeared to a noncombatant...
Through all the irrelevance of this apology, through all that has been said and thought of her, one clear fact emerges: each of her books has been a landmark, although on many different courses, and each of them offers, along with her tract "How To Write," a sufficient support for its own art. Many individual pieces are partially meaningless to us; no one person has made his own every facet of her achievement. That their logic is architectoric rather than progressive may make critical formulae inadequate but cannot serve as a serious challenge to the work itself...
Meantime Midwestern was growing older and bigger; Ella, now Miss Bishop and a campus landmark, grew with it. Love came once more, in the shape of a middle-aged professor, but he had a wife. Miss Bishop's mother went crazy, rocked back & forth in her room for nine years. The professor's unwanted wife died; on his way to Miss Bishop he was killed in an accident. Miss Bishop's salary was cut; her savings went down the drain when her bank failed. But when cheering alumni gave her a testimonial dinner all Miss Bishop...
...mining boom spread away to west & south, mountain rats took Central City over. Rain streaked the Rhenish landscape on the Opera House curtain and the gaudy murals done by a forgotten painter named Massman. In 1931 the McFarlane heirs gave the sorry pile to Denver University as a landmark of Colorado's brawling past, past enough for Coloradoans to be proud of. But the University could not afford to repair the vast, draughty stage, prop up the collapsing roof. To the rescue came Denver's able, elderly Art Patron Ann Evans, socialite president of Evans Investment Co., daughter...
...cross-section it is triangular, the apex pointing north to where the hill formerly stood. From the apex to the south face is carved a rugged suggestion of swept-back wings. A revolving beacon surmounts the shaft. For the present at least, the beacon will be more of a landmark to mariners than to airmen. The nearest airport is army's Langley Field, 80 mi. north. The nearest airway passes some 200 mi. to the west...