key-point

• “The new Shmoop Civics section offers charts, explanations, and key-point lists about the branches of US Government.”

  Shmoop Adds Civics and Biographies

• “Thus the spell which seemed to shut from view this key-point of a vast interior country remained till the prophetic eye of capital discovered and possessed it.”

  Minnesota; Its Character and Climate Likewise Sketches of Other Resorts Favorable to Invalids; Together With Copious Notes on Health; Also Hints to Tourists and Emigrants.

• “This eddy makes the key-point of contact of the humid Gulf winds with the cool winds of the westerly current, and likewise being the northwestern terminal point of the course of the great northeasters, the contact being the cause of the excess in precipitation.”

  Minnesota; Its Character and Climate Likewise Sketches of Other Resorts Favorable to Invalids; Together With Copious Notes on Health; Also Hints to Tourists and Emigrants.

• “Northern Army commander had wedged a heavy force in there, threatening the key-point Obozerskaya.”

  The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919

• “As soon as the cavalry returned, I saw that an attempt on the road was frustrated, and accordingly have placed McDowell's brigade to our right front, guarding the pass of Snake Creek; Stuart's brigade to the left front, to watch the pass of Lick Creek; and I shall this morning move directly out on the Corinth road, about eight miles to or toward Pea Ridge, which is a key-point to the southwest.”

  Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals

• “The fight raged furiously about 10 a.m., when General Corse received a severe wound, was brought off the field, and the command of the brigade and of the assault at that key-point devolved on that fine young, gallant officer, Colonel”

  Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals

• “As soon as possible, the following dispositions were made: The brigades of Colonels Cockrell and Alexander, and General Lightburn, were to hold our hill as the key-point.”

  Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals

• “The average person looks at the map and supposes that in the event of war between Russia and Japan, the key-point would be Vladivostok, the end of the Russian railway, reaching across Siberia to the Pacific Coast.”

  Would A Russo-Japanese War Be Another World War?

• “Then there came the attack on that key-point of all France's power, Old Niagara, almost on our border here.”

  Four Nations

• “During this same expedition, he spoke of the fact that their commanding officer had missed the key-point, by saying:”

  Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers

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