Word: landmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jobs with the richest material that any literary executor has ever done. This poet (or someone writing for him) said what Griswold was and would be with deadly accuracy: For gotten, save only by those whom he has injured and insulted, he will sink into oblivion, without leaving a landmark to tell that he once existed; or, if he is spoken of hereafter, he will be quoted as the unfaithful servant who abused his trust. The poet: Edgar Allan...
...farther a piece of anatomy is from the film during exposure, the more its two superimposed silhouettes overlap in the resulting composite transparency. The method of calculating a bullet's depth is to measure the overlap of its silhouette, and compare that with the overlap of some body landmark, preferably a bone. The basic principle of this depth-determination technique is as old as geometry. But the Kleins hope that Army & Navy surgeons can use their stereoscopic Xray...
...Outing Club went to Lexington and the German Club to local beer dens while married couples left their children with the eager girls of the Radcliffe Summer Play Group. Historical Boston was hit by an influx of landmark-gazers wish their seersucker-jacketed guides...
...Traymore Hotel, Atlantic City's famed, 27-year-old landmark, was one of the resort's four hotels (plus huge Municipal Convention Hall) taken over by the Army last week, stripped of its lush furnishings and converted into soldiers' barracks. Luxurious as a palace in a Little Nemo dream, its interiors resembling a 1915 movie's conception of the height of luxury, it will be crammed with 2,000 Air Corps cadets, who will sleep on Army cots in the Traymore's 638 rooms...
When the R.A.F. blitzed Lubeck last April, they destroyed a literary landmark, the ancestral home of emigre Novelist Thomas Mann. The Mann mansion was an 18th-Century rococo building popularly known as the Buddenbrookshaus after Mann's two-volume first novel, Buddenbrooks-a genealogical account of the rise & fall of a middle-class German family engaged in the Lubeck grain & feed trade...