Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Princess Margriet, 7, performed her first public function by unveiling the monument. Also present was three-year-old Princess Marijke, who was annoyed by the singing of several hundred Haarlem children and cried: "I want to go home. It is no good." Apart from this incident, the ceremonies went off smoothly. In time, even the literal-minded Dutch might come to believe in the Hero of Haarlem...
...from that to organized rebellion. Buried in Professor Skinner's report is the note that at least one of his pigeons appeared on a window sill and virtually volunteered for the experiment; the word is obviously getting around. As far as we're concerned, pigeons exist solely to give monument cleaners a chance to earn an honest living. An educated pigeon will inevitably try to get something more...
...from where the Premier spoke stood the foundation stone for a never-finished monument to the American troops who had liberated Pilsen...
...attitude towards its undergraduate body. The individual responsible College officials, Dean Bender for example, could not be more understanding of the student's point of view, but the attitude of the Corporation as a whole is oblivious of student or alumni desires. For example, there is the new marble monument to the World War II dead now being constructed for Memorial Church. This is undoubtedly a fine sentiment, but a useless expression of it. The student body, the CRIMSON, and an overwhelming majority of those members of the Associated Harvard Clubs who were polled were against...
...Army engineers," Douglas observed, "is 'Build us ever higher and more costly dams and more costly levees, O my Congress.' " He thought it was time to call a halt until Congress could study the whole vast Missouri River project, "which, if carried through, will be a monument to the mistakes and errors of man." He had studied the project carefully, he said. He doubted that there would even be enough water from the Dakotas to fill the channels and irrigation ditches which the Army engineers were busily scooping out. Whether Douglas was right or wrong, the Senate apparently...