Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final rush of Legionnaires off arriving ships brought the number in France to 4,500 and with ample dignity they gathered to see dedicated the Franco-U. S. War Monument just outside Versailles on the highway to Paris. Built almost entirely with money donated in small sums by school children and their elders throughout France, the monument features statues of General John Joseph Pershing and the Marquis de Lafayette...
...Bible was not written as a political tool, nor as a history or a grammar for those yet unborn, even as we ourselves, to puzzle over. Nay, it was a monument erected out of the sincerity of men's hearts to one of the greatest institutions mankind has ever known. I should be studied as such, with realizations of that sincerity and with appreciation of those timeless truths...
There might as first blush seem to be some reason for putting this work into the recess, since it hardly requires any formal instruction, and, for anyone who can give time to it, it is universally delightful. The King James Bible is what Professor Lowes calls the noblest monument of English prose," while the name Shakespeare speaks for itself; and the reading in the ancient authors, Homer and the like, is hardly less attractive. Yet to expect the student to take time off from his regular summer pursuits, whether it be a job or travel or merely routine of outdoor...
...stage set at the base of the floodlighted Washington Monument, Franklin Delano Roosevelt last week addressed 65,000 listeners massed on the slick green lawns of Washington's Sylvan Theatre. Occasion of the speech was the 150th Anniversary of the signing of the U. S. Constitution by 38 delegates in Philadelphia. Having made the Constitution the most controversial U. S. political subject of the year, the President took the opportunity to define his views on it, emphasize the familiar theme that in the past four years the Supreme Court has obstructed the will of the U. S. electorate...
Greenbelt, as a monument to R. A., is in a sense the most appropriate that could have been devised. Its cost $14,227,000. Its rent will bring in $60,000 a year. Last week the Greenbelt Tenant Selection Staff was busy picking from 9,000 families who wanted to live there, the 885 who will eventually...