Word: landmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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News of the unexpected demise of McBride's drew student comments ranging from sad thankfulness for obliteration of the tempting landmark to surprise and consternation that the ancient beverage emporium should withdraw from the galaxy of Harvard Square "spots...
...discussions of which it is full, the abstractness of many of its issues, will prevent "Process and Reality" from over directly affecting more than a small number of industrious and independent thinkers. But its indirect effect has been and will continue to be enormous, it should forever remain, a landmark in the history of the intellect, a perpetual source of fundamental ideas, a monument in metaphysics, cosmology and theology, a watershed separating off twentieth century from nineteenth century thought...
Declaring that the report of the President's Committee on Civil Rights is a landmark in the battle for civil liberties, Baldwin noted that similar sentiments supporting human equalities are embodied in the UN charter. He voiced his belief that foreign critics of American failures in the sphere of human freedoms ". . . are, in large measure, right...
Peals of girlish laughter had definitely replaced the monotonous buzz of crickets in a small sector of the Radcliffe Quadrangle last night. The transition even raised a smile beneath the facial foliage of a bearded octogenarian, a vesperian landmark with his dachshund on a Walker Street stroll...
...after they were built. Memorial Hall, built in 1870 as a Civil War memorial was used for many years as a 1000-man dining hall, but its idealistic purpose was soon forgotten. For the last thirty-five years it has been a comparatively useless, as well as meaningless, Harvard landmark...