Word: monumentalize
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When freed from his academic duties, Professor Abbott finds refuge "in the red house on Sparks St." Like Sir Christopher Wren, Wilbur Cortez Abbott has builded his own monument. Within the walls of 74 Sparks St. he has assembled all the evidence that one could need for an analysis of his mental processes. He has a beautiful collection of unused chessmen; sundry gargoyles stare out from his walls; there is a mug used at Nicky's coronation; framed on the wall hang a pair of European Court Fans; on a window seat, in the sun, sparkles a jewel handled Moorish...
...that several Labor sections of his Recovery march, those for whom, individually, NRA promised most, were breaking ranks in wild disorder. Strikes, jurisdictional squabbles, bloody labor combats pocked the land. An opportunity to megaphone Labor back into line presented itself when the President went to dedicate a monument to the late great Samuel Gompers on Massachusetts Avenue, a block from the American Federation of Labor Building in Washington...
...thousand years age Alexander the Great, having conquered a substantial portion of the world, became big with pride and longed to be delivered of one of his ambitions. He was master of Egypt, and after the fashion of kings, he formed a design to leave behind him a monument forever fixed with his name. Alexander's fancy was of an extremely practical sort, and his project was to found a great city, to bear his name, to keep fresh his memory through the ages, and to pay tribute. The monarch summoned the best architects available, chose a site, subdivided...
...been completed the income of the endowment is to be devoted to the encouragement of archaeology and classical studies without distinction as to sex, race, nationality, colour, or creed. Through this splendid benefaction Dr. Loeb has left to posterity something which will nobly perpetuate his name. It is a monument which, though less conspicuous than the structures of brick or stone which commemorate the famous names of the past, has the advantage of transcending the limitation of a local habitation. Thucydides has told us that the whole earth is the tomb of famous men, and it is, indeed, fitting that...
...admitted, not only owes him an everlasting debt of gratitude but also needs the restatement of many of his principles. ... If, as the world pauses to celebrate his birth four and a half centuries ago, it would rear a shaft of reverent devotion to his living memory, although that monument might be built from flawless granite, faced with stainless alabaster, edged with the rarest of marbles and raised to the loftiest heights to which human skill can ever ascend, this monument would be incomplete unless, in recognition of Luther's present day significance, there were emblazoned on its side...