Word: monumentalize
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...electric power was about as reliable as the automobiles of 1905. He undertook to make it into the efficient thing it is today. He it was who bought and installed the first steam turbine generator ever made. It stands today in the General Electric plant in Schenectady, marked "A Monument to Progress.'' From Chicago he spread his activities out and out until they blanketed 200 neighboring cities and towns. In place of small local operating plants he built big utilities-and built them well, for they still stand, still make money. Ultimately his domain of well-managed power...
...them from drawings they seem things of astonishing beauty." To all living "children and children's children'' of Hameln, Germany, went invitations to return for a summer-long observance of the 650th anniversary of the child exodus led by the Pied Piper. On June 26 a monument to the Piper will be unveiled and dedicated. Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Hiawatha of the Algonquian Ojibwas ceased to be a legend, was proved a person when the Smithsonian Institution announced that, an Iroquois, he lived between 1550 and 1600, was a cannibal by tribal custom...
Nearly two milleniums ago a man who liked monuments sent his Roman legions into the Alps and in three brisk campaigns made vassals of its 44 tribes. To celebrate that feat the Roman Senate & People raised to their first Emperor, Augustus Caesar, a great monument, on a lonely hill overlooking the Mediterranean and the shore road along which the legions marched toward Spain. Like a great stone wedding cake, the Trophy of the Alps rose 150 ft., topped by a stone Augustus. With the centuries the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals and Huns tore the great pile apart. Later still...
...Feeling that this was still inadequate he created a new title, "Hero of the Soviet Union," and made them all Heroes. To the 102 who had been rescued he awarded the Order of the Red Star and half a year's pay. Then he ordered a monument in Moscow to immortalize the great Soviet epic...
Over the unmarked hump of ground in South Dakota's Black Hills where lies Deadwood Dick Carver, boomtown desperado and dime novel hero, the Deadwood Chamber of Commerce voted to place a rough stone monument and a brass plate...