Word: landmarks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gratified by the decision of the faculty of the Law School to retain us as students. It is another landmark in the democratic tradition of Harvard. The decision is a clear voice in the mistiness of the present irrational atmosphere which would restrict thought and activity to an unprecedented narrow area of orthodoxy...
...project, said TIME, "was beginning to look like a small significant landmark in U.S. education...
Ever since the story appeared, the "landmark" has been looming larger. Dr. Fishback has heard from people in 25 states and Alaska, most of them wanting more information and help in getting similar projects started in their own communities. More than 50 letters asked him for copies of his reading list for school board members, mentioned in the story...
...When he got up, the mountains were silent again. Keith Jacobsen and the second boy, Larry Schinke, had vanished. Survivor Almquist started the 4½ miles back to the pass. He broke one ski. But he plunged fearfully on, waded along the Snoqualmie River until he found a familiar landmark, then took off through the snow again. It was only 3 o'clock in the afternoon when he burst out near a ski lodge at the road, yelling, "Help! Help! Avalanche...
...onetime landmark in Bridgeport, Conn, was marked for demolition by a real-estate developer: the full-size house with doll-size furnishings built in 1863 for the 31-in.-high circus midget Tom Thumb, who gained world fame and fortune with Circus Tycoon P. T. Barnum...