Word: landmarking
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South Africa. His big chance came when, in 1897, he was sent to South Africa as High Commissioner. His send-off is a landmark in the history of the Liberal Party...
...France: From St. Inglevert, near Calais, to Istres, near Marseilles; from the northeastern tip of the country to the southern shore, Army officers flew under the worst conditions of visibility without sighting a landmark. They relied on maps, compasses, derivometers (drift-indicators). They strayed scarcely a mile from the course...
Dazed, he looks for an old landmark. What? No "Pill Box"? Only a traffic policeman marks the spot. With filmed eye and tottering limb, he makes for him. But rashly, for the released traffic leaps forth. Down goes the stranger. The officer's arms gyrate madly. A snort of disgust--"Top slow...
...York Evening Post, ancient landmark of the U. S. publishing panorama, approached the end of its first year under the mastery of Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis. It had been a year such as the Post never knew before?a year of the grand manner...
...serves admirably to point the article in the Saturday Evening Post which it criticises. If the writer really believes that familiarity with so significant an event as the Treaty of Utrecht indicates "a pedantic hankering after specific facts" and that the date of so significant a landmark in the history of English literature as the appearance of Tottel's Miscellany is to be considered deadwood. I feel sure he is in a fair way of becoming the type of college graduate (not limited to Harvard) to which I took objection. I doubt if either a trend of thought...