Word: monumentalize
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...South America, however. Next morning the Indianapolis docked at Montevideo and he came down the gangplank literally into the arms of Dr. Gabriel Terra, Uruguay's beaming President. They had a three-hour drive, passed 200,000 applauding Uruguayans, and Lieut. Colonel Roosevelt laid a wreath on the monument of Uruguay's liberator, General José Artigas. There followed another official luncheon at which Dr. Terra praised his own New Deal in Uruguay and then, with Latin preoccupation with domesticity, declared: "I raise my glass in a toast to Mrs. Roosevelt, whom I see in my mind, following...
...length from three to 18 inches. The biggest tracks and the longest strides indicated that the largest lizard was 25 ft. long. The trustees of Massachusetts Public Reservations bought the surrounding land from its owner. President George E. Pellissier of Holyoke Street Railway Co., turned it into a prehistoric monument and park...
...describing the Presidency in intimate visual detail, including many shots of the White House upstairs as it now looks during the occupancy of the Franklin D. Roosevelts. For the first time since Lincoln, the public can look out through the front portico from the upper hall, out to the Monument from the President's Study, around the Study at Mr. Roosevelt's ship models and family portraits...
Sculptor Bartholdi quickly produced a number of sketches for his monument (now on exhibit among other Liberty documents at the Museum of the City of New York), but would have had little success with his project when he got back to France without the interest of Historian Edouard de Laboulaye, grandfather of the present French Ambassador to Washington. With the backing of Historian de Laboulaye and other prominent Frenchmen, francs were raised by popular subscription among French citizens to present the statue to the U. S. on its 100th Anniversary, the Philadelphia Exposition...
...four lone bottles credited to Princeton show that President Dodds' request must have had some effect. No other team this fall, or for many years, has ever left such a small and shoddy monument to its entertainment by fair Harvard, as Princeton's two pint botties and the robust quart. Amherst, Brown, and Dartmouth all left approximately twenty-five times as many dead men, that is, about 100. In all of these games Harvard's consumption was apparently far below what greeted the Tiger, for the arrival of the Nassau delegation upped the Crimson empties by about fifty per cent...