Word: landmarking
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...Warren's cello, turned and twisted in his specially built chair, fired quick, needling questions at the attorneys, sent messengers scurrying for law books. All of the nine men behind the long bench, unlikely to agree, knew that they faced a decision that could well be a landmark in the history of race relations...
...level is a rather gruesome landmark in high-altitude flying. It is the level at which the air has so little pressure that human blood (temperature 98.6° F.) begins to boil. If something had gone wrong and Wing Commander Gibb had been exposed to the pressure outside his cockpit,' his veins and tissues would have puffed up with a froth of water vapor, his spinal fluid would have begun to beil, and he would have died in a few seconds...
...gratified by the decision of the faculty of the Law School to retain us as students. It is another landmark in the democratic tradition of Harvard. The decision is a clear voice in the mistiness of the present irrational atmosphere which would restrict thought and activity to an unprecedented narrow area of orthodoxy...
...project, said TIME, "was beginning to look like a small significant landmark in U.S. education...
Ever since the story appeared, the "landmark" has been looming larger. Dr. Fishback has heard from people in 25 states and Alaska, most of them wanting more information and help in getting similar projects started in their own communities. More than 50 letters asked him for copies of his reading list for school board members, mentioned in the story...