Word: landmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Always in class he wore a light grey suit, immacuately pressed. It was "apparently the same, year after year". His long white beard made him a landmark on the Harvard scene...
...many a gigantic monument of the past (Egypt's Pyramids, Rome's Forum, China's Great Wall), TVA is built for use as well as looks. Like them, it will go down as one of the most permanent achievements of its civilization, may even remain a landmark long after its usefulness is over...
...November 1936 most of the building, including one of the ugly twin towers, burned to the ground. But the North Tower remained. Recently the neighborhood began to think the Luftwaffe was using the tower as a landmark. The Supply Ministry also wanted its 840 tons of wrought and cast iron. So, one day last week, engineers packed 120 Ib. of gelignite against one side of the tower, touched it off, and watched this appendix of Victorian days topple...
When the Transcript's wearied press rolls off the last copy next Wednesday afternoon, a hundred year landmark will fall from the ranks of Boston's better traditions. With its finale goes a profoundly respected paper, one of the few remaining which refuse to bend to the winds of sensationalism. Harvard will lose a friend, an ardent promoter of educational interests rather than sprawling headlines...
Startled readers wondered whether the strange book was a landmark, the first appearance of the Streicher mind in the U. S. Few recognized the name of the author, Theodore N. Kaufman. But in 1939 it had appeared as chairman of the American Federation of Peace, which urged Congress either 1) to keep the U. S. out of Europe's wars, or 2) to sterilize all Americans so that their children might not become homicidal monsters. In step with the times, Sterilizer Kaufman had simply transferred his basic idea to the enemy...