Sentence examples for display of war from inspiring English sources

The New Yorker, November 13, 1943 P. 17 A man was wandering through the display of war materiels at the Chrysler Building & suddenly realized that he had strayed into a section devoted to silver services belonging to Major Bowes.

The internationally famous attractions of living wonders, mechanical marvels and historical artifacts of P.T. Barnum's American Museum, located in New York City, influenced the Chicago Fair's Curiosity Shop, including the largest display of war souvenirs and Americana yet seen in the North.

And a display of war's horrors, as in "The Trojan Women," can have a different meaning when it is part of a mythic heritage that implicitly acknowledges war's inevitability.

But, at a minimum, the march here showed that, on the eve of a possible war, Saddam Hussein's government has the power to bring out big crowds, and that there is no shortage of weapons in this country, which has made few public displays of war preparations so far.

The exhibition is one of four concurrent shows at the Center related to the Spanish Civil War, including a display of Capa war pictures.

One display, "Faces of War", was particularly moving.

The first afternoon in Tokyo, though, in the Shitamachi Museum of everyday urban life, I was drawn to a display of World War II artifacts, including a hand-cranked World War II air-raid siren.

Fortunately for me, I arrived one week after the crowds who were on hand for the sesquicentennial celebration of the surrender had dispersed although I did get to hear a Lynchburg College Choral Union performance of Songs of the Civil War in the Appomattox County High School Auditorium, which included two dramatizations and a display of Civil War artifacts.

Tibetan skills in battle are made abundantly evident in "Warriors of the Himalayas: Rediscovering the Arms and Armor of Tibet" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a dazzling display of Tibetan war equipment from the 13th to 20th century.

It will feature flights by six Corsairs, a recreated production line, a display of World War II uniforms, a remembrance tent with photos of veterans and appearances by former Corsair pilots and people who built the aircraft.

"It wasn't much of an interrogation," Stanford-Tuck recalled in 1979 when the two men came to Los Angeles to commemorate a display of World War II art at the Donald Douglas Museum at Santa Monica Airport.