Word: monumentalize
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...oldest and possibly largest† advertising agency in the world, has long had its offices in an old Philadelphia building on Chestnut St. Last week officials announced that in the spring a new housing will go up, along the west side of Washington Square, Philadelphia; a $1,000,000 monument to its age and prestige...
Nevertheless one wonders if Mr. Larkin does not feel something of the pride which moved Cheops when he built the pyramid which was rather a sensation in his day, of Nebuchadnezzar when he ordered the hanging gardens. There will be no awful monument to a heath on god atop the Larkin tower, and no pleasure palace for a buried king. Nearly a quarter of a mile above the level of the street, business men will put down the ticker tape with a sigh, light a cigar and go to sleep; stenographers will take the opportunity to powder the insatiable nose...
Senator Sheppard listened patiently, taking notes; then snorted his arrogant reply: "The Wets have about as much chance of weakening the Prohibition law as a humming bird has of flying from, this planet to Mars with the Washington monument on its back...
...higher education in general, important as those services were. His influence was also great in the field of secondary education, and in elementary education as well. The reforms which he advocated, many of which have permanently enriched education from the grammar school to the university, are a monument to his penetrating insight and his practical wisdom...
...Kate, Maria and Leah, who came to public notice out of Hydesville, N. Y., in 1848, with strange knockings. Despite Margaretta's confession, late in life, that their knockings were accomplished by loudly cracking their double-jointed knees and toes, the Fox sisters were last year voted a monument, to be erected at Rochester, N. Y., by the International Spiritualist Congress at Paris...