Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anniversary of his death, was dedicated a statue of Wartime Premier Georges Clemenceau, clad in his trench-visiting tin hat and thick coat. Present were President Albert Lebrun, Premier Edouard Herriot, General Max Weygand. Notably absent were Clemenceau's son and two daughters. Long protesting against this "insignificant" monument in a "nonexistent square," they objected also to the statue's muffler, declaring their father never wore...
Last week aging, taciturn Orville Wright, 61, stood beneath a gale-pelted canvas shelter at the same sand dune. Kill Devil Hill, near Kitty Hawk, to witness the unveiling of a monument to that historic flight. (His brother Wilbur died 20 years ago.) The actual scene of the flight lay a quarter-mile to the north. Sea winds had budged Kill Devil Hill some 50 ft. a year before Army engineers anchored it with hardy grasses and shrubs...
...monument atop the hill, designed by Manhattan Architects Rodgers & Poor, is a 66-ft granite pylon set upon a star-shaped foundation. In cross-section it is triangular, the apex pointing north to where the hill formerly stood. From the apex to the south face is carved a rugged suggestion of swept-back wings. A revolving beacon surmounts the shaft. For the present at least, the beacon will be more of a landmark to mariners than to airmen. The nearest airport is army's Langley Field, 80 mi. north. The nearest airway passes some 200 mi. to the west...
Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley accepted the $275,000 monument for the Government. Brigadier General Louis Hermann Bash read a letter from President Hoover, presented the rain-splotched paper to Mr. Wright. Said Mr. Wright: "Thank you." It was his only speech...
...perfunctory routine documents. They contain many pages of vigorous and stimulating comment on the House Plan, the reading periods, the tutorial system, and graduate study. A collection of the best passages from these reports would constitute a distinguished treatise on educational principles. Such a collection would be a fitting monument to President Lowell's outstanding leadership in university education and would at the same time be in itself a thing of permanent value...