Word: landmarks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adjust the position of the legs to simulate motion. Then he dissected them muscle by muscle. After 18 months of study and a set of minutely detailed drawings, his curiosity was satisfied. One result of his studies, an elaborate tome entitled The Anatomy of the Horse, was a landmark for artists and veterinarians alike...
...nearly 40 years, a gaunt oil derrick rusted on a hilltop east of Edmonton, a landmark known the country round as "Chamberlain's Folly." While digging for water on his farm in 1911, William Chamberlain had hit a pocket of natural gas and got a hunch that there might be oil on his land. He sank his savings in an oil rig, the first rotary drill ever used in Alberta. The money ran out when the well was down 2,000 feet, with no sight of oil. Discouraged, Chamberlain went back to farming...
...Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf's handsome, nine-story building is no less a landmark than the famed Vanderbilt mansion which it replaced 23 years ago. On Bergdorf's books are 48,000 active charge accounts of the royal and rich of the world, some of them adding up to $100,000 a year. Recently, when Haile Selassie wanted some finery for his court, he simply charged it up at Bergdorf's. Bergdorf
That was ten years ago. Last week the first volume of just such a commentary was off the presses. Entitled The Interpreter's Bible, and prepared under Dr. Buttrick's general editorial direction, the new commentary is a landmark of biblical scholarship...
...artificial production of a compound naturally produced by the living body is generally hailed as a landmark in the advancement of chemistry...