Word: monumentalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, 55-year-old heir of 80-year-old King Gustaf V. took place in a sick room at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Three days before the President had stopped in heavy rain at Wilmington, Del. to help dedicate a monument by Sculptor Carl Milles to the settling there, three centuries ago, of the first Swedes and Finns in America, but the tall Crown Prince, painfully stricken at the last moment by a kidney stone, had to let his third son,' dark, handsome, fast driving* Prince Bertil, 26, present the monument...
...snow-mantled Olympic Mountains were formed, on the peninsula between Puget Sound and the Pacific Ocean, is not precisely recorded. In 1909 President Theodore Roosevelt had Mount Olympus (8,150 ft.) and some 800,000 acres around it set aside as a national "monument," a refuge for a majestic strain of elk which roamed there, thereafter called Roosevelt...
Roosevelt II visited there last year. It was raining, as it usually is on the west side of those mountains, but he saw enough to want the Mt. Olympus national monument expanded into Mount Olympus national park. Last week, a bill to do this having finally been passed by Congress after much wrangling between conservationists and lumber companies over the extent of the expansion. Franklin Roosevelt affixed the signature that brought the new park (898,292 acres) into being...
President Roosevelt (Sun. 6:30 p.m., NBC-Blue, CBS, MBS) dedicates the Peace Monument at Gettysburg...
...letter to TIME (Dec. 31, 1934), Mr. Foss started a readers' controversy by calling burial expenditures "heathenishly extravagant," advocated a 100% tax on them. Last week, under the terms of his will, the remains of Donald Foss were cremated, the ashes scattered on his farm with no extravagant monument to mark them...