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(rŭsh′môr′), Mount

A mountain, 1,745 m (5,725 ft) high, in the Black Hills of western South Dakota. Its monument with massive carved likenesses of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt was carved under the direction of Gutzon Borglum.

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Rushmore

(ˈrʌʃmɔː)

(Placename) Mount Rushmore a mountain in W South Dakota, in the Black Hills: a national memorial, with the faces of Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, and Roosevelt carved into its side by Gutzon Borglum between 1927 and 1941. Height: 1841 m (6040 ft)

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Rush•more

(ˈrʌʃ mɔr, -moʊr)

n.

Mount, a peak in the Black Hills of South Dakota that is a memorial (Mount Rushmore National Memorial) having busts of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt carved into its face. 5600 ft. (1707 m).

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Rushmore - a mountain in the Black Hills of South Dakota; the likenesses of Washington and Jefferson and Lincoln and Roosevelt are carved on it

Mount Rushmore, Mt. Rushmore

Coyote State, Mount Rushmore State, SD, South Dakota - a state in north central United States

Black Hills - mountains in southwestern South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming; sacred to the Sioux (whites settling in the Black Hills led to the Battle of Little Bighorn); site of Mount Rushmore

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Rushmore Coglan, and he will be heard from next summer at Coney Island.

Rushmore Coglan prattled of this little planet I thought with glee of a great almost-cosmopolite who wrote for the whole world and dedicated himself to Bombay.

Rushmore Coglan banged the table and I was jarred into silence.

Rushmore Coglan, citizen of the terrestrial sphere."

Rushmore Coglan and a stranger to me engaged in terrific battle.

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Indeed, Tseng photographed everything from the World Trade Center and Mount Rushmore to group shots of Moral Majority leaders and Haring's inner circle.

A life in "Chinese drag"; photographer Tseng Kwong Chi preserved the subway works of Keith Haring and posed his own questions about being gay and Asian in Western culture. (art)

can be used to enable upper-elementary and middle-school students to enlist critical thinking skills and to develop a desire to read an article about Mount Rushmore.

R.I.T.E. reading: constructing meaning by finding what's "wrong" in an informational text

Anderson's second film, Rushmore (1998), matches innocence with experience in the friendship between Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman), a precocious 15-year-old schoolboy, and Herman Blume, a middle-aged pipe mogul played by Bill Murray.

A royal shame. (Wunderkinder)

* Some kids, like the students at Rushmore Elementary School in Long Island, New York, are writing thank you letters to rescue workers.

Kids Help Out. (news)

Rushmore the National Park Service asked students to provide a brochure to visitors explaining what the monument means to the United States.

Rock "n" Roll Presidents on Mount Rushmore. Second Grade Activity. Schools of California Online Resources for Education (SCORE): Connecting California's Classrooms to the World

has greenlit "The Royal Tenenbaums," a script from Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson ("Rushmore").

Anderson/Wilson pic gets Disney OK

Paul Cole and Jimmy Fortune completed a quick double, following Matlock's impressive success earlier in the evening, when Rushmore won the seven-furlong handicap at Sandown on Wednesday night, writes Bruce Jackson.