Word: monumentalize
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...Tennessee Valley Authority, affecting an area as large as England, with an amount of architectural structure that would have made a Roman emperor gasp, is a whopper. Like many a gigantic monument of the past (Egypt's Pyramids, Rome's Forum, China's Great Wall), TVA is built for use as well as looks. Like them, it will go down as one of the most permanent achievements of its civilization, may even remain a landmark long after its usefulness is over...
...Italian armies were no good without the support of German troops as long ago as 272 A.D. Evidence: an inscription on a Persian monument, in which Shahpur I, a Persian king, related how the Romans, too weak to win themselves, assembled an army of Germans from many parts of the Empire to make war upon "the Aryans" (i.e., the Persians). > Oldest known democracy was in prehistoric Mesopotamia. Evidence: ancient manuscripts and Mesopotamian mythology, which indicate that Mesopotamia before 3,000 B.C. was ruled by an assembly of free citizens, later became a despotism...
...alleged decision of the Overseers to erect a "neutral" war memorial to Harvard's war dead, on which names of men who died for their country, whatever their counry, would be engraved. A letter to the Crimson, reprinted from the New York World, terms the erection of such a monument "an insult to God," an enduring memorial "to the shame of Harvard and nothing else," because it would list the dead of both sides. The Alumni Bulletin of this period is full of such letters, pro and con. After America entered the war, of course, all thoughts of having...
...over a period of years, show that over 10,000 Harvard men served with the Allies in the Army; Navy, and Air Force, and 373 lost their lives. The names of the dead are posted in Memorial. Church, which, along with Memorial Hall and Soldiers Field, is a permanent monument to Harvard's war casualties
...sect on the islands became convinced that Hawaii was soon to sink into the sea. But I Am, by a magnificent exertion of will, resolved that Hawaii should not disappear under the waves. And today Hawaii stands strong and unsubmerged, a bulwark of national defense and a heroic monument to the Great...