Word: monumentalize
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Near Flagstaff, Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, chief Smithsonian ethnologist, has taken up summer quarters to study the Hopi ruin of Wupatki, which he first described 25 years ago and last year succeeded in having preserved as a national monument...
Thus wrote super-Pan Italian poet-soldier-philanderer Gabriele d'Annunzio, not long ago, and his versified words, deep cut in granite, now adorn the Brenner Monument...
...Paul's, London, the Earl of Crawford unveiled as a memorial to John Singer Sargent a bronze crucifix The Redemption-executed by that painter 20 years ago. "We commonly say," said the Earl, "that every man's work is his own monument. What is metaphorically a truism is here an actual fact...
then to writing, and got famous under the name of Mark Twain. The college man was unveiling a monument to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn done in bronze by Frederick Hubbard. He told how Tom Sawyer (who was really Clemens himself) had loved in the book a girl named Becky Thatcher, whose crinkling, twinkling jampot eyes had won him, whose enchanting ways had sung a song in his heart until he died. She was the flower of Missouri, said the college scholar; no girl had freckles golden as hers, no girl so jimp a leg. Once she had spent...
...precedent to build a memorial in the form of an institution for the betterment of the human physique and a monument for the joy of athletic contest. William H. Ennis...