Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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That such an error as assigning a well known story to the wrong man and the wrong battle should have been made at the dedication of the grand Washington Monument is a great pity, for it records prominently for posterity, a glaring example of careless scholarship...
...Robert C. Winthrop, Harvard '28, delivered the oration at the dedication of the Washington Monument last Saturday. Mr. Winthrop was also the orator at the laying of the cornerstone...
Hines has made several attempts to catch a ball thrown from the Washington monument. In one instance he did not judge within thirty feet of where the ball would land; at another he caught the ball unexpectedly, but only held it for a second...
...more celebrated for its gardens than its buildings. While the partisans of the red and the white roses, or rather of Lancaster and York, were busily engaged in the conflict that eventually put Lancaster upon the throne, they did not forget to found Queen's College as a monument for future generations. E Asmus was a fellow of this college. A peculiar bridge, the mathematical bridge, leads the writer at Queens College to the other side...
...parents." Another from the same source, "Hunc Polydorum auri," "A hunk of gold belonging to Polydorus." Horace fares little better when the verse " Parcus deorum cultus et infrequent" is rendered, "The park of the gods was not frequently cultivated. "Another one, "Exegi monimentum are perennius," "I have eaten a monument, and c." Here is one from Livy, "Venus ei candida veste apparuit," "Venus appeared to him with a white vest on." Another from the historian, "P. Scipio equestri genere natus," "Publius Scipio was born at a horse race." Here are two renderings of apparently cognate origin: "Caesaris bonas leges...