Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perhaps inevitable that any biography of Henry Adams will bring to its subject the same air of redundancy that a monument to Sir Christopher Wren must possess. "Sirequires monument, circumspice," can no more truly be said of the one than of the other, for they were both individuals whose lives, ambitions, and philosophies are expressed only in their works. Yet James Truslow Adams has attempted a short study of Henry Adams to serve as an introduction for the collected works of the author of St. Michael and Chartres...
...Gobi Desert. Since his father's death he has managed the family interest in Colgate-Palmolive-Peet. Quiet, clear-headed Bayard Colgate, now only 34, has again obtained control-which the Colgate family has not had since 1928-will try to right his great-grandfather's tilted monument...
...over two years, since the fall of 1930, the Big tree swimming pool has presented a boarded exterior to the passer-by on Holyoke Street. Once the University's only pool, it is now an idle and dusty monument to the expansion made possible by Harkness millions. Because of its central location it was considered as a site for a new telephone exchange, but the erection of such a building elsewhere has rendered the immediate future of the structure, and the land it stands on, as useless as its immediate past...
...Those fellows" were the Interstate Commerce Commission and the "Big Four" railway systems-New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, Pennsylvania. They had balked his every effort to form another great Eastern system which would be L. F. Loree's monument. As a railroad man in the gaudy tradition of Vanderbilt, Harriman and Hill, Leonor Loree was known & feared, but Vanderbilt, Harriman and Hill had their big systems and bearded old Mr. Loree had only the smallish Delaware & Hudson and Kansas City Southern. Between them was a great gap. But L. F. Loree was tenacious...
...maintaining the trees and shrubs on Andover Hill; a fund for sabbaticals for the older teachers, the Addison Gallery of American Art (TIME, May 25. 1931). Since 1928 a whole new Andover, in Georgian style, has been sprouting on the hill. Last week this seemed a great monument to ailing "Al" Stearns. And it also seemed a yardstick by which Thomas Cochran and the other trustees would certainly be obliged to measure the calibre of Andover's next headmaster...