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Word: monumental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...have a camel here that no one remembers, also a monument commemorating the first tunnel through the Alps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Illustrious Unknown | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

...John Donne had a morbid obsession with death (". . . Never seek to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee") which prompted him to pose in a shroud for the sketch of his own monument, and keep the picture at his bedside until his death wish was fulfilled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Genius & Madness | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

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