Word: monumentalize
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...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...
Internal Combustion. He was all sorts of things in the next three years-a foundry worker, a monument polisher (he carved his father's tombstone), a brewery hand, a railroad roustabout. But in 1905 he got a job in a garage, and fell in love forever with the internal-combustion engine...
Chaplin's use of the sound track is sparing but excellent. His own brilliant musical score has the double virtue of being perfectly appropriate and independently memorable. In his opening scenes, showing civic stuffed shirts unveiling a monument, the speeches come through as squeaky noises that are at once a spoof of the speakers' pomposity and a nose-thumbing Chaplin commentary on the ya-ta-ta of the early talkies. He uses sound again when he swallows a whistle and his squealing hiccups bring dogs and taxicabs...