Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country began the day with prayer and no one so far as I know has yet attributed our country's present financial condition to that custom. . . . To the thousands of friends of Chautauqua who know it and love it, a criticism of its traditions, its landmarks, and its monuments is like unto a criticism of Bunker Hill Monument, Washington's Headquarters at Valley Forge, or of the custom of salute to the Flag...
...Houston, which sinks. Though a Japanese court martial sentences Lieut. Maki to be shot, war has meanwhile been declared. After a terrific air and naval battle most of the U. S. fleet is sunk and Japan as a starter seizes the Hawaiian Islands. The Dream ends as a monument to Lieut. Maki is unveiled in conquered Honolulu...
...keep pace with the general upswing has been due to calculated sabotage or to sincere, though groundless, fear of consequences, it is impossible to say. If this policy results in the loss of the Securities Act in order to attain recovery, then there will be one more important monument to the blundering incompetence of the bankers, whose vision is as narrow as their power is great...
...cozy ceremony took place last week in the White House. President Roosevelt sat in his study-the Oval Room on the second floor, overlooking the wintry south lawn towards the bleak pinnacle of the Washington monument-surrounded by his paintings of white-sailed ships scouring green-blue seas. Around him was gathered an intimate group, some two dozen personal friends and members of his official family. They were there to witness the administration of two oaths of office, simple in themselves, but of large importance to the company inside, to the country outside. The chief clerk of the Treasury swore...
Miss Phoebe M. Knappen (U. S. Biological Survey) reported that when the Washington Monument was new, hundreds of birds dashed themselves to death against it at night. In time they learned to avoid it and all went well until two years ago when floodlights were trained on its sides. Since then at least 618 dead birds of some 50 species have been picked up at the monument's base...