Word: monumentalize
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...with an extraordinary personality. He leaves behind indelible impressions of a man never too busy to be kind to others and never too absorbed in his own taste to see the changing picture or the world around him. He helped to found a great magazine which will be a monument to his memory...
EARNEST ELMO CALKINS, President, Calkins & Holden: " TIME Newsmagazine, original, individual, independent, sometimes cocky but never dull, copying no other pattern but creating its own form and a language to express its unhackneyed viewpoint will always remain a monument to Briton Hadden's uncompleted life no matter what heights it eventually attains, as he had the vision and courage to offer us a new attitude toward the day's news. We could better spare an older and less vivid editor...
Upstairs. When the President awakens in his four-poster mahogany bed, his eyes may travel out over the verdure of the White House park to the massy shaft of the Washington monument, which gleams pink at sunrise. If he goes to his south window and peers to the right, he may also see a corner of the State, War & Navy Building. In his room is the bed that was built for Abraham Lincoln, so huge (6½ ft. by 9 ft.) that four Roosevelt children could be comfortably tucked away in it crosswise...
...bedside. He was 80 years old. He had outlived his two sons, had lived "from the lightning rod to the radio," as he said last year. He had been fighting death since Christmas Day. The only book he ever wrote was Fifty Years a Journalist. But his monument, the Associated Press, is a great unbound volume, an unceasing history attuned alike to hamlet and metropolis...
...Europe's old masters by Americans, a still more furious storm threatens on the horizon. According to a recent dispatch to the New York Herald Tribune, an American connoisseur of art has carried from the shores of France no less than a historic relic of primary importance, a monument to French Democracy--in fact, the very bath tub in which the great Marat was stabbed by Charlotte Corday. This new fad of Americans no longer to confine themselves to purely artistic objects and to enter the field of historic memorials has caused the fellow countrymen of Watteau and Monet...