Word: monolithism
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...grateful Japanese erected a stone monument, near Yokohama, to Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, who opened up Japan to western trade and influence. Last fortnight members of the Imperial Rule Assistance Youth Corps, "amidst yo-heave-ho shouts," tore it down. Replacing the Perry Monument is a wooden monolith with inscriptions "to stimulate the spirit to defend the fatherland...
...statue of Abraham Lincoln in the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington was carved from the largest block of marble he could find. His Wars of America, in Newark, N. J., was at one time the largest bronze group in the U. S. Mount Rushmore was a big enough monolith to satisfy even Borglum. Said he: "There is something in sheer volume that awes and terrifies, lifts us out of ourselves, something that relates us to God and to what is greatest in our evolving universe...
...Sonny, that fellow is on the other side but I admire him more than any other man. That man is a monolith. There are no seams that the frost can get through. He is of one piece...
That man was Pierce Butler, who died one day last week, just before dawn. With this 220-lb., 6-foot-2-inch monolith died the last hopes of those who believe that the frost is getting through the seams of the U. S. Constitution. With four New Dealers on the Supreme Court bench and a fifth to take Pierce Butler's place, snowy-whiskered Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes will no longer control the balance of power...
...days later the official report to Congress by the Democratic National Committee revealed the names of several corporations with expensive bookish tastes -most of them also sellers of the kind of goods of which the Government buys quantities: Bethlehem Steel Co. (20 copies); Automatic Voting Machine Corp. (12); Monolith and Medusa Portland Cement Companies. Hammermill Paper Co. (10 each); California Portland Cement Co., Deere & Co. (8 each); The Carborundum Co., Inland Steel Co., Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. (4 each). Other bibliophiles: Walter P. Chrysler (50 copies), Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, International Association of Machinists...