Word: monumentalize
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Hell & high water they had endured for seven years and seven months. The work had not stopped night or day except on Christmas, Labor Day, the Fourth of July. Seventy-two of them had been killed. Their monument was in concrete, in the biggest thing men had ever made on earth. Grand Coulee Dam towered 550 feet from the ancient bed of the Columbia River, spanned three-quarters of a mile from bank to bank; behind it the waters had piled up in the beginnings of a lake that one day will stretch 151 miles to the Canadian border...
...foot of the Washington Monument, McAdoo plucked up courage to propose to Wilson's 24-year-old daughter Eleanor. His wife had died the year before, he was then 50, and already a grandfather. Nevertheless he became Wilson's son-in-law. The war took him to the zenith of his public career: he floated four huge Liberty Loans, took over the rail roads, issued $370,000,000 in emergency currency in three months, ran the Secret Service, helped Senator Carter Glass launch the Federal Reserve System...
...activities. . . . You may ask why we . . . do not spend the same money in Christian work and arrange to worship in less impressive surroundings. . . . Great buildings dominate and influence the lives of all who live near them. A church which embodies and illustrates the truths of Christianity should be a monument in which the affection and aspiration of many generations of Christians are centred. That is why we choose to spend our money in this...
Since June 22, German workmen have been busy in the clearing. Car 2419D was removed to Berlin. The Alsace-Lorraine monument, the concrete hall, the big granite block and a smaller one marking the spot where the German plenipotentiaries alighted-all were blasted to bits with dynamite while German newsreels ground...
Last week a photograph in Adolf Hitler's newspaper, Völkischer Beobachter, showed the clearing as it is today, with nothing but bare patches in the shriveled winter grass to indicate where the car, the hall, the granite blocks and the monument had stood...