Word: monumentalize
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...brother of the first man-carrying machine, finds that credit is stinted the achievement. His subsequent disposition of the Kitty Hawk plane as a gift to the South Kensington Museum is decidedly a mark of displeasure that benefits the English institution while depriving the American one of a monument to courage and ingenuity, as well as to the first conquest...
There is a Rosenberg monument in Galveston, Texas. Rosenberg...
Said Sir Eric: "We now have a council chamber that is at once a monument to what has been accomplished and a symbol of future harmony. ... In the bad old days in industry, before the round-the-table idea had taken root, operatives knew nothing and cared less about the difficulties of management. ... It is not too much to say that the increasing cooperation of our operatives has been a most important factor in steering this organization into smoother financial waters...
...nickname, had no societies named after him, had no fan mail. He cared not for these-scholarship, his lecutres, his books, his missions, his duties as an editor and as director of the Widener Library, were enough. In them he had his life. In them he has his monument, more permanent than life...
...real life might be described as retiring and shy, his dominating philosophy of life and strength of character move through his works of prose and poetry like the spirit of the storm and the whirlwind. And, although gathered to Olympian heights to join the immortals, he leaves a monument of colossal magnitude and superb achievement to all posterity...