Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...where are all the books?" I talked with my friends, and no one I knew had ever actually found a book there. My mission would be to find sometbing to verify that Widener was a library and not a fraudulent tourist attraction like the "John Harvard" statue, a monument to a student whom the faculty thought looked cool...
BORN: July 8, 1938, Louisville, Ky. EDUCATION: Martin U, 1994-95 FAMILY: Divorced; two children RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Clothing-store owner; congressional aide POLITICAL CAREER: Indiana House, 1973-77; Indiana Senate, 1977-91; Center Township Trustee, 1991- ADDRESS: 54 Monument Circle, Suite 600, Indianapolis...
...dead authors' hopes for posterity, the library is a monument to the failures and successes of humanity. If you write a book, maybe you will influence the ages. At the worst, you will make a bit of money and know that your words will sit on the shelves of Widener for eternity, keeping your place on earth...
...they change it, I'm not coming back," he says. "It's like changing a monument...
After more than two hours of listening to supporters' statements, the seven-member commission unanimously agreed "to approve in concept" the construction of a monument to the Irish famine, "with the details and site to be worked out in a broader process...