Word: tablets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University of Wisconsin stands for free speech. Affixed proudly to the wall of its Bascom Hall is a bronze tablet celebrating "that fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found...
...Third Engineers are proud of their comrade." So reads a bronze tablet to be affixed to Gold Hill, which looms beside the longest dry cut in the Panama Canal. This cut, nine miles in length, was called Culebra (meaning "snake") until...
...original design provided for a granite tablet, but the plan has been set aside for a temporary limestone setting until a place is chosen for a permanent monument...
...values but as a source. The immediate public for whom Sullivan is narrating the genesis of modern America is a public whose members were in active life when the events which Sullivan records were taking place; they are amused by the book because in a way it is a tablet of personal reminiscences. The younger people of today, however, the people of college age, form the real vanguard of Sullivan's larger public. They hear witness to the success of his experiment, for he has re-created a period of transition for them, a period with which they have...
Blanchard said that the City of Cambridge has given its official sanction to a Washington Eim memorial, and has placed a tablet marking the spot where the tree stood. "There is a real danger," Blanchard stated to a CRIMSON representative, "of losing our Washington traditions in Cambridge by a failure to erect a suitable memorial. There seems to be a tendency to destroy the traditions and the reputations of our national heroes. The Washington Elm is a tradition of which Cambridge should be proud, and which cannot easily be relinquished...