Word: gettysburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Defeat at Gettysburg. In Gettysburg, Pa., Fannie Rager tried & tried to fill out a ration-application blank, finally hanged herself...
Like the Declaration of Independence, the preamble to the Constitution and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, the Supreme Court's "ringing polysyllables"* should go down in history. It is the fourth great statement of the fundamentals of democracy, and like the other three, every child should memorize it so that when he grows up he will learn to love...
...Universal) is Abbott & Costello's eleventh time around in the movies. There is every indication from most audiences that sheer, unspecialized hokum continues to have a power of appeal rivaling that of Mozart or the Gettysburg Address...
When Garfield spoke, the struggle between North and South was but three years over. Many of its men and all of its memories were alive. The names of its battles were like a vast orchestration of the years of war. Manassas and Shiloh, Antietam and Gettysburg, Vicksburg and the Wilderness-the names would be long remembered. Seventy-five years later, on another Memorial Day, the nation was again at war. Again it had become, not merely a people with an army, but a people in arms. The old place names still lingered in the American mind, but now there were...
Open now to officers stationed at the University, is a miniature section of the terrain around the Battle of Gettysburg which is being used by Harvard ROTC students in their field artillery firing...