Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Death stalked across Plaza de Mayo, the loyal revolutionary troops supposed that counter-revolutionaries had already captured the Casa Rosada! Scrambling wildly for cover, they sniped back at the machine gunners. But, with every man behind a corner, monument or bit of roof, heads cleared, the mistake was realized, firing ceased in front of the Pink House...
...always has the industry enjoyed stability. When Benjamin Franklin advocated lightning rods in 1747 people thought the whole idea was stupid, sacrilegious. But finally there came a boom. The whole country became lightning-rod-minded. In 1885 a body of scientific men studied the Washington Monument, already hit a few times, and recommended conductors for it. Wide-awake salesmen made a racket of the craze, slapping useless pieces of metal on roofs. Gradually people became aware of the fact that lightning was striking even where the so-called rods were. The rods were thereupon denounced as expensive folly. About...
...Reapportionment of the House was neglected after the 1920 census. *In 1925 Vice President Curtis's tribe of Kaw Indians gave Mr. Haucke the name of Ga-He-Gah-Ahah (''White Chief") for setting up a Kaw memorial monument near Council Grove...
...proposal not only envisions Manhattan as the gateway to the nation, but, richer in concept than previous plans, seeks to symbolize the U. S. as a great interfusion of races, nations, peoples, whose civilization has been and is based on commerce. His plan proposes as an appropriate* national monument a great vaulted hall, largest in the world, with an esplanade on the Battery water's edge and buttressed by two ten story office buildings. A nation-wide contest among architects of all races will be held, a popular subscription to raise $25,000,000 set into motion. Ideal...
Also dead, well over a decade ago, is the person whose fanaticism kept intact the $100,000,000 Wendel realty holdings, who turned all his sisters but one into eccentric old maids. The silent, grim old house on Fifth Avenue, lighted by gas and without a telephone, is a monument to John Gottlieb Wendel. He it was who dominated his six sisters, holding all the titles to the Wendel properties in his own name, forbidding them to marry lest the family property be split up. He looked on with approval as they made their own clothes and wore the round...