Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will have told you about the park's bears. There are some 700 black and silver-tipped grizzlies this year, so you are bound to see plenty. The park service runs tourist camps, but you can safely pitch your tent anywhere. (For ferocious bears, go to Katamai National Monument, Alaska, rivaled as a game range only by Belgian Congo's gorilla preserve.) There are more bison (1,000) and elk (10,000) in the park than the mountainous area could support in the winter if hunters did not kill the elk and rangers cull out the bison. There...
...marbled halls of Herbert Hoover's monument, the new Department of Commerce Building, both phases of the Recovery Act are being administered. Last week movers were cluttering up its halls with furniture from the offices of the moribund R. F. C. Pert young clerks by the score were inking up rubber stamps and, like hungry buzzards, Congressmen had already scented out the headquarters of the government's newest and grandest handout...
...know, dear Teta, that regardless of any charges by bank officials, not one cent has ever been taken by me in any way. On the contrary, all I have saved, my life savings for mother and you, have gone into the bank. It has been my pride and 'monument' . . . and it has been swept away and is a miserable failure. Our boy-your brother-gone. My health gone. My entire fortune- gone. My bank-my pride-gone. My friends-gone...
...International Committee. (Y. M. C. A. now works in 56 lands, with 1,606,376 members and $280,384,093 in property.) Y. M. C. A. luncheons all over the U. S. tuned in on the broadcast, heard Lord Allenby say: ''Here ... is erected an international monument to Peace and Brotherhood. Under its shadow, jarring sectarians may cease from wrangling; fierce passions be tamed; and men's minds be drawn to loftier ideals...
...stone floors. In the Secretary's anteroom with its stiff jet-black furniture and portraits of Hughes. Lansing, Colby and Kellogg, Italy's Augusto Rosso, proud of his "Americanism." waited his turn. So did Belgium's May, gazing wistfully out the window at the Victory monument of the A. E. F.'s First Division.* Other callers included Spain's de Cardenas, Sweden's Bostrom, Czechoslovakia's Veverka, Denmark's Wadsted...