Word: monumentalize
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...devoted to popularizing in France new or outlandish products, processes, animals, or plants which seem to possess authentic merit. Last week the blushing and bowing discoverer of intrasauces was assured that his name will live with that of Marie Harel, immortal creator of fromage camembert, to whom a monument was recently erected and dedicated by onetime President Alexandre Millerand (TIME, April 23). Modest Culinary Immortal Dr. Gauducheau then explained that his discovery is quite simple, merely a shrewd adaptation of the physician's hypodermic and the chemist's skill to the problems of the chef. A pigeon, chicken...
When the corner stone of the new Library was laid, Monsignor Ladeuze, Rector of the University of Louvain, exclaimed with fervor: "When generations of the future ask our successors about the origin and sense of this monument of which we lay the first stone, they will be answered: 'At Louvain the Germans, by burning the library, definitely broke with wisdom and with civilization...
...yesterday, the upper reaches of the limpid stream resembled the Lido and Bailey's Beach more than a dignified and usually deserted river. Young Cambridge and a liberal assortment of canines disported themselves in the intriguing and unanalyzed waters, making whoopee all around Stillman and transforming Lief Ericson's monument into an apparatus for achieving that dark, rich skin which one doesn't love to have touched but which eventually, it is hoped, will develop into...
President Hibben spoke from a sixteenth century oak pulpit in a Gothic chapel of surpassing beauty. Designed by Ralph Adams Cram, it is the largest college building of its kind in the country. And if it is the monument of a dying faith, it is, in its very hugeness, pathetic. The faith of the elders that saw its erection is staunch and living, and it is evident that its intense beauty will cause a Sunday fervor among the undergraduates. But in the student mind of the day, that fervor, born of music, mysticism and impressiveness, is essentially pagan and orgiastic...
Permission for the erection of a monument to General Artemas Ward on public grounds in the District of Columbia has been applied for by the president and fellows of Harvard College. A bill to this effect has been passed by the House of Representatives, and now awaits ratification by the Senate...