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Word: obelisk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...This village, which is called Ushakovo, has lost one of its three dimensions. Now it has only length and breadth; there are no vertical elements save a couple of gateposts and a small wooden obelisk on a mass grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: The Sour Smell of Death | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...Tomb of Thomas Jefferson above the run of books by the many minor poets who can write Frosty or Horatian lyrics as well as Lee. Now & then, in his severely chaste magazine verse, a reader can hear a rumble that means business, as when he writes of the obelisk that marks Jefferson's grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

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