Word: monumentalize
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...Tuskegee Big Jim placed a wreath on the Booker T. Washington monument (Washington lifting a -veil from the eyes of a startled slave). Then he greeted frail old George Washington Carver, ate fried chicken, reviewed a parade. After Negro Tenor Roland Hayes had made his radio debut in a broadcast from Boston, Mr. Farley compared Booker T. to George Washington, to Robert E. Lee, shook many a black hand, visited the founder's grave, went on to Auburn. Mr. Farley ate chicken once again (he hates it), entrained for Atlanta, with Georgia and North Carolina...
...Monument, Hams...
...omitted, however, I think, one revealing thing about the man. You did not mention the monument Carl built to Flagler, Carl's also imaginative predecessor, also pioneer of Florida's "pleasure dome." Most of Florida appears to have forgotten Flagler; Carl in his heyday...
...first annual report Dean Ferguson has erected an impressive monument to the late tenure controversy, and inscribed thereon a sad and gentlemanly epitaph to the ten assistant professors. With a wealth of facts and figures the Dean has traced the origins of the tenure crisis which broke last year--the over-expansion of the optimistic twenties, and the retrenchment necessitated by a stationary budget and the Committee of Eight's new rank system. He describe the care with which the Administration regretfully lopped off the now-famous ten, and points out that while ten men were fired, about twenty-three...
...evidence of the important contributions of the Houses to the life of Harvard College. There rest upon all of us a very special obligation to see that the memorial which he has left behind in the Houses along the banks of the Charles serves as a worthy and vital monument...