Word: monumentalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night, in a Northeaster, a strange ship blew into Portsmouth. Next day, a man who walked like a cat was seen going up the hill to the graveyard. He surveyed the monument with a puckered face, took a chisel from his pocket, added a postscript: RETURNED TO THIS LIFE, APRIL 18TH...
Business School Boosters have shown lots of sand in convincing the world that business is a profession. Now they announce that their monument to this conviction is to be set up on piles. It all sounds like the parable of the man who built his house upon false foundations, and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and behold! the house--where...
...soul. . . . And no one can lift his eyes to the majestic head of Robert Edward Lee on Stone Mountain's breast and doubt it for a moment. ... I personally am of the opinion that no other living sculptor is so ably fitted to carve this equestrian monument as is Gutzon Borglum...
...greatly mourned at New Haven. But so great was his influence as an innovator in college athletics that lovers of sport everywhere will deeply regret his passing. His insistence upon the highest ideals in sport made him university admired and respected, and his own work will remain a monument to him so long as football remains football...
...seal of the President of the United States, to whomever it might concern, it was proclaimed that Calvin Coolidge, by virtue of his office and powers conferred upon him, did set aside 1,820 square miles of the public domain and consecrate it to the uses of a national monument, to be known as Glacier Bay National Monument. The new monument, on the south-east coast of Alaska, includes several tidewater glaciers...