Word: monumentalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These visitors to Cambridge, President Lowell, the faculty of the school now dedicate a monument to American business. It is not the complacent reminder of a sordid interest. It is the dignified reminder of the willingness of the modern Harvard to ally herself with the contemporary world, to train men for the duties and needs of that world; and it is the dignified, vital reminder of the energy, generosity, breadth of mind of leaders in business...
Especially is this true of the donor. With the decorum of true philanthropy, George F. Baker has allowed this monument to rise, has cooperated with Harvard in what to many still remain an educational novelty, but to the serious and sincere few is a significant advance in that ill charted march, made by that misunderstood plodder, education...
...dumb and stupid world plants its weary feet upon the slippery and blood-soaked sand where men like John Brown died. . . . America ought to be glad to build a monument to John Brown and ashamed to let the Negroes take the lead. He was one of America's great...
...Fairview, Ky., a concrete obelisk mounts 351 feet into the air. Built by Southern hands, it is a memorial to Jefferson Davis, onetime President of the Confederate States of America. Last week workmen were completing an elevator installation; on June 3 the monument, which stands on the estate where Davis was born, will be formally dedicated. With the exception of the Washington Monument, it is the highest memorial shaft in the world...
Opposite this entrance, ranged like a football crowd on the tiers of a stadium, beneath a classic portico and around a towering monument of Winged Victory, stand the leaders of the French nation-Marshal Joffre in the centre, "Tiger" Clémenceau, arms crossed, four-square with hands behind his back, with Marshal Foch close by, brooding alone at one side; President Poincaré, expectant, surrounded by frock-coated colleagues...