Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...representatives of the 3,000,000 Masons in the U. S. will lay the cornerstone of what is to be their Order's greatest edifice-a George Washington National Memorial on Shooters Hill, a link in the Arlington Ridge overlooking the capital. The monument will be 200 feet high, rising in a series of towers surrounded by columns, over an atrium 70 by 100 feet...
...lofty way back from a two-day cruise over the Sahara, the Dixmude met a hurricane above Sardinia?so circled back to the African coast. Next day Sardinia and Corsica passed beneath her. At seven the following morning she hovered over Paris, then dropped a wreath on the monument at Moulins to the victims of the dirigible Republique's crash some years ago, swung back to the Riviera and landed in front of her hangar near Marseilles at the dawn of her fifth day of flight...
...unconsoled but not wholly broken to the ground, he set about beginning the only task that remained for him? the designing of a monument for George's grave...
...Stone Mountain Monumental Association (which is carving a monument to the Confederacy, on the side of the famous mountain) offered to the Mayor of Marion, all the granite necessary for constructing a mausoleum for the late President...
...just before the paralytic stroke which ended his painting days in 1920. This consists of a Panorama of the 49 Provinces of Spain, representing scenery, costumes and customs of each province. These were brought to America in 1922 by the painter's son, and will form a permanent monument in the New World to the memory of this joyous genius...