Word: monumentalize
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...keep pace with the general upswing has been due to calculated sabotage or to sincere, though groundless, fear of consequences, it is impossible to say. If this policy results in the loss of the Securities Act in order to attain recovery, then there will be one more important monument to the blundering incompetence of the bankers, whose vision is as narrow as their power is great...
...cozy ceremony took place last week in the White House. President Roosevelt sat in his study-the Oval Room on the second floor, overlooking the wintry south lawn towards the bleak pinnacle of the Washington monument-surrounded by his paintings of white-sailed ships scouring green-blue seas. Around him was gathered an intimate group, some two dozen personal friends and members of his official family. They were there to witness the administration of two oaths of office, simple in themselves, but of large importance to the company inside, to the country outside. The chief clerk of the Treasury swore...
Miss Phoebe M. Knappen (U. S. Biological Survey) reported that when the Washington Monument was new, hundreds of birds dashed themselves to death against it at night. In time they learned to avoid it and all went well until two years ago when floodlights were trained on its sides. Since then at least 618 dead birds of some 50 species have been picked up at the monument's base...
THREE HUMAN BOMBS "The highest and noblest monument of war was erected near Shanghai by the Three Human Bombs at Miaohangchen. At dawn on March 22, 1932, in a general attack on Miaohangchen a certain Japa nese Division, which marched from Woosung, encountered great obstacles through the stubborn resistance of the Chinese troops, which, firmly entrenched, defied the fierce onset of the Imperial Army. The Chinese soldiers raised strong defense works there during a month. A way had to be cut through these deadly obstacles for the Imperial troops. Three heroes of a Japanese sappers' corps, named Takeji Eshita...
Charles A. Coolidge '81, senior member of Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch, and Abbott, designers of the new James A. Shannon memorial, will confer with President Conant today on the question of a position of the new monument to the man who trained Harvard Reserve Officers during the war. Due to the pressure of University business the President was unable to meet the architect yesterday as was originally planned, but it is understood that no further developments have arisen in regard to the placing of the stone. Although further announcements in connection with the position of the memorial were not forthcoming from...