Word: monumentalize
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...concrete foundation, had replaced the roaming greensward of past years. It was ugly and repellent in the promise of its towering potentiality, a potentiality that upon realization will change the Yard into a Wall Street of shadow and skyscrapers. It would be more fitting, the Vagabond mused, as a monument to a deceased Harvard Yard than to a partisan memory...
...were the views on relief expressed by President Hoover (by radio) and New York's Governor Roosevelt (in person) last week when they both participated in a memorial service to Red Cross Founder Clara Barton at Dansville, N. Y. The President called the Red Cross ''a monument to individual and local initiative." The Governor said: "We understand today that disaster and catastrophe are not limited to suffering caused by fire and flood. If the teachings of Clara Barton were right, these same teachings must apply to the distress and suffering stalking in our midst today. . . . To this...
...some drapery dropped and there, in bronze, sat the late great Author Thomas Hardy. Dorchester was "Casterbridge" in Hardy's Wessex novels Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Return of the Native. He died near there three years ago (TIME, Jan. 23, 1928). When the monument-designed by Eric Henri Kennington and paid for by the writer's admirers all over the world -was unveiled, Sir James made known an obscure fact about Hardy's life...
...chemists patiently listened to learned papers and learned discussions. Yet they had fun?having their group picture taken at McKinley's Monument in Buffalo's Niagara Square; visiting the factories in and around Buffalo...
...know the petroleum business as well as his own. While Brother Harry was packing pills in the Washington jail, he carried on, the company prospered. He still administers many of the company's affairs with vigor while Brother Harry travels, negotiates, tries to build his career's monument...