Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...July 2, 1881 when he was shot, never made a speech of any sort to the G. A. R. While campaigning in 1880, he made a "Boys in Blue Speech." an "Army of Cumberland Speech," "Reunion with His Old Regiment" and "Inauguration of Soldiers and Sailors Monument" (Painesville, Ohio). In none of these speeches is there any resemblance however remote to President Hoover's Detroit speech to the American Legion...
Thomas Alva Edison died last week. His practical intelligence was a monument in his century. Thousands of obituaries were published. Some facts about Thomas Alva Edison...
...rivers, an adviser on construction of the Panama Canal, a winner of the John Fritz and Elliott Cresson medals for engineering achievement. Several years after Engineer Noble died, five great U. S. engineering societies-jointly honored his memory. They sought $100,000, collected $20,000-insufficient for an imposing monument, yet enough to provide a $500 prize for any of their members not over 30 who should write the best technical paper for one of their journals. Thus the engineers' prize somewhat corresponds to the chemists' $1,000 prize for bright young men or women offered this year...
What Henry Adams found in Chartres was not only in a building of surpassing beauty or a monument to a great faith built by loving hands, but, more than that, he found a spirit, a spirit, of unity, of precision, of order. These were beliefs that dominated the Middle Ages, and upon which a whole civilization was erected. It was a creed that men lived by, and for which men died...
...authority upon world peace, upon farm relief, upon harbor legislation. And William J. Bryan won a presidential nomination by a Biblical simile as astounding as it was inept. But the Bible was not written as a political tool, nor yet as a grammar. It was a monument erected out of the sincerity of men's hearts to one of the greatest institutions mankind has known. It should be studied in the full realization of that sincerity and with high appreciation of its timeless truths...