Word: monumentalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Near Mr. and Mrs. Edison on the platform was John W. Lieb of the New York Edison Co. He dedicated the tablet and presented it to Governor George S. Silzer of New Jersey as a state monument, the latter accepting after Mrs. Edison had unveiled it. President John G. Hibben of Princeton then perorated, with interruptions by a rumbling freight train and a youthful Edisonian who leapt to the fore to declare he would never go to college.*Samuel Insull terminated the speechmaking...
...first place, Evolution is not foolish. Anyone who tries to laugh aside as a joke this great monument of intellectual advancement becomes himself ridiculous. It is food for the loftiest thought. Here, as everywhere else, the revelations of science have proved, beyond comparison, more uplifting and inspiring than any product of the human imagination, such as the myth about Adam...
...Yale's famed Harkness Quadrangle, quoted Prof. William Lyon Phelps there-anent: " 'My eyes filled with tears. . . . The features of the skyline change as rapidly and as tenderly as the face of a breathing alma mater, beholding her children. . . . The buildings stand in the midst of traffic, a monument to the life of the spirit?they are as accessible...
...Lukeman accepted the invitation to complete the figures on Stone Mountain, announced that he would discard all Borglum's designs, make new ones which would include a "Hall of Fame" at the base of the monument. Said he: "I consider that this is the greatest opportunity which has come to a sculptor for centuries." Said Borglum: "Delighted...
...competitors, the one stipulation being that the memorial "shall adequately commemorate the character and significance of President Roosevelt." The site, already chosen, presents complexities. The scheme upon which the city is laid out involves two axes: the first from the Dome of the Capitol through the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial; the second a cross-axis to a terminal balancing the White House on the south. The site for the Roosevelt Memorial is at the end of this axis; the edifice, when erected, will be this required balance, this terminal. Those who have been invited to submit designs...