Word: monumentalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Feeling that this was still inadequate he created a new title, "Hero of the Soviet Union," and made them all Heroes. To the 102 who had been rescued he awarded the Order of the Red Star and half a year's pay. Then he ordered a monument in Moscow to immortalize the great Soviet epic...
...from pious Texas: "Is there objection to the present consideration of the joint resolution?" Placid silence followed. The clerk read the resolution. More placid silence marked the automatic passage of S. J. Res. 21. Not unusual is it for the Senate to adopt a resolution permitting erection of a monument to a Civil War cavalry colonel who was also a great Republican orator. But altogether unusual was the Senate's action when the soldier-orator had an even greater fame as an antiChristian, a man who, were he still alive, would have picked up the prayerful chaplain...
...full meaning of the new Augusta National Golf Club, opened last winter (TIME, Jan. 23, 1933), is that of a monument to one of the finest sportsmen and sporting careers ever known. Men from all over the country contributed to the building of a '"perfect" course that should embody everything Bobby Jones thought best in the game, and that should have Bobby Jones for its president...
Over the unmarked hump of ground in South Dakota's Black Hills where lies Deadwood Dick Carver, boomtown desperado and dime novel hero, the Deadwood Chamber of Commerce voted to place a rough stone monument and a brass plate...
...Kremlin, urchins used to run and play across a large unkempt field where once stood the Cathedral of the Redeemer. Lately, however, they have been shooed away by bands of surveyors, engineers, architects. The land was being inspected and groomed for Russia's latest and greatest monument, the Palace of the Soviets, which, when completed (perhaps in 1937), will be the world's largest and tallest building...