Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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THREE HUMAN BOMBS "The highest and noblest monument of war was erected near Shanghai by the Three Human Bombs at Miaohangchen. At dawn on March 22, 1932, in a general attack on Miaohangchen a certain Japa nese Division, which marched from Woosung, encountered great obstacles through the stubborn resistance of the Chinese troops, which, firmly entrenched, defied the fierce onset of the Imperial Army. The Chinese soldiers raised strong defense works there during a month. A way had to be cut through these deadly obstacles for the Imperial troops. Three heroes of a Japanese sappers' corps, named Takeji Eshita...
Charles A. Coolidge '81, senior member of Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch, and Abbott, designers of the new James A. Shannon memorial, will confer with President Conant today on the question of a position of the new monument to the man who trained Harvard Reserve Officers during the war. Due to the pressure of University business the President was unable to meet the architect yesterday as was originally planned, but it is understood that no further developments have arisen in regard to the placing of the stone. Although further announcements in connection with the position of the memorial were not forthcoming from...
When freed from his academic duties, Professor Abbott finds refuge "in the red house on Sparks St." Like Sir Christopher Wren, Wilbur Cortez Abbott has builded his own monument. Within the walls of 74 Sparks St. he has assembled all the evidence that one could need for an analysis of his mental processes. He has a beautiful collection of unused chessmen; sundry gargoyles stare out from his walls; there is a mug used at Nicky's coronation; framed on the wall hang a pair of European Court Fans; on a window seat, in the sun, sparkles a jewel handled Moorish...
...that several Labor sections of his Recovery march, those for whom, individually, NRA promised most, were breaking ranks in wild disorder. Strikes, jurisdictional squabbles, bloody labor combats pocked the land. An opportunity to megaphone Labor back into line presented itself when the President went to dedicate a monument to the late great Samuel Gompers on Massachusetts Avenue, a block from the American Federation of Labor Building in Washington...
...thousand years age Alexander the Great, having conquered a substantial portion of the world, became big with pride and longed to be delivered of one of his ambitions. He was master of Egypt, and after the fashion of kings, he formed a design to leave behind him a monument forever fixed with his name. Alexander's fancy was of an extremely practical sort, and his project was to found a great city, to bear his name, to keep fresh his memory through the ages, and to pay tribute. The monarch summoned the best architects available, chose a site, subdivided...