Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...massaging just the fat parts of the body may make those parts bigger. Surgery is dangerous. And exercise is hopeless: to take off one pound, said Dr. Ralph E. De Forest, a fat man would have to walk 36 miles, or do 2,400 pushups, or climb the Washington Monument 48 times. After losing some weight by dieting, the patient should take a little gentle exercise, such as walking or golf, and then go on to swimming. One trouble with heavy exercise: it boosts the appetite...
Citation: "This unique couple . . . have reared for themselves a monument of the American pioneer spirit in education. Deerfield Academy, their happy seat . . . hand in hand for half a century they have been molding . . . the lives of generations of young men, having in every boy the faith that moves mountains...
Just before the Christmas vacation began, '27 paused to doff his hat to President Lowell on his 70th birthday. Lowell would need no monument to his administration. The tutorial program, intramural athletics, and the many new dormitories and classes were monuments enough to the President's residence at Harvard. Already, they were preparing to open the new business school across the river, and officials had announced that, because of affiliations with the Boston Public Library, it would be the largest business library in the world...
Kefauver, on the other hand, will appear at his worst if he is stacked against Taft. His anti-crime crusader's halo will look a little dull if he is compared with the monument of civic rectitude from Ohio. Kefauver's extreme "internationalism," his Atlantic Union background, will make Taft's foreign policy look like sober sense to a lot of voters...
...artists (including Raphael, El Greco, Dürer and Van Dyck) have handed down a stock portrait of a calm and cadaverous holy man who has generally-following a popular legend-just removed a thorn from a grateful lion's paw. Scholars have long known better. In A Monument to St Jerome (Sheed & Ward; $4.50) nine Roman Catholic authorities have 'written a combined character sketch of one of the livehest, most learned and most cantankerous saints ever to be canonized a pummeling controversialist who could sniff out obscure heresies as a veteran fire-buff smells smoke...