Word: monumentalize
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...represents 40 years of dedicated collecting by Thomas Gilcrease, 63, part Creek Indian, who struck it rich after oil was discovered on the 160-acre Gilcrease tribal allotment in 1906. Proud of his Indian blood, Tom Gilcrease set out to assemble a monument to the American past, and over the years collected examples of the best works of the painters of the U.S. frontier: George Catlin, Frederic Remington, Charles Russell and some 250 others. He also bought masterpieces by Homer, Whistler and Sargent, and a collection of pre-Columbian gold work. Among his 70,000 books and manuscripts...
...firepower. If a one-inch cube were considered the equivalent of one ton of TNT. the average bomber load in World War II would stand four inches high; the Nagasaki-Hiroshima atomic bomb would be a 1,666-ft. column, more than three times the height of the Washington monument; the "conventional" atomic bomb of today would tower 4,998 ft. high; and the power of the thermonuclear superbomb, similarly expressed, would be represented by a column soaring 63 miles into...
...Pablo Picasso, his peace doves and his two-faced doodlings, Fellow Artist Françoise Gillot abandoned the master at his studio on the Riviera, bundled herself and their two children, Claude, 6, and Paloma, 4, back to Paris. Said she: "I was tired of living with a historical monument...
...civil liberties are necessary in wartime, but safe because of their acknowledged temporary nature. But even though peacetime infringements of civil liberties often prove more effective in bothering loyal Americans than in crimping the work of Communists skilled in evasion, they are seldom repealed and remain as a permanent monument to hysteria...
...been artificially colored with potassium bichromate and an iron salt to make it look old, and its teeth had been pared to make them look more or less human. Unanswered still was the question of who had planted the fake. Dawson, who died in 1916 and whose monument stands near the Piltdown gravel pit, may have doctored the jawbone to make himself famous. More likely, the difficult hoax was perpetrated by an erudite joker who enjoyed in silent satisfaction his success in fooling the experts...