Word: monumentalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Where is there a statue of Jesus Christ in all our nation, from north to south, from east to west? . . . We have a great beacon of the statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, a mighty shaft to honor our first President and a noble monument to our great Lincoln, in Washington, but we have no statue of Christ anywhere to signify that we are actually Christians and that we recognize Him as Christ the King." So last month spoke Rev. John Joseph Preston, a modest, retiring, 60-year-old Roman Catholic priest, at the outdoor Wayside Shrine...
...people of limited means. Governmental encouragement of such work will provide immediate employment for more than 1,000 men on the Hillside housing operation. . . . Further similar action on the part of Reconstruction Finance Corp. will provide the greatest possible stimulus to employment, as well as create a lasting monument to the desire for better housing throughout the country...
...When Mr. Mikimoto annoys the oysters in his 41,000 acres of oyster beds by having a minute substance delicately inserted in the body of each oyster, the oysters react by producing about $1,000,000 worth of Mikimoto pearls a year. In gratitude Mr. Mikimoto has erected a monument to the Mikimoto oysters. Nothing so infuriates Oriental pearl men and nothing so delights Mr. Mikimoto as a decision of the French courts which he quotes from memory on all occasions thus: "Japanese culture pearls [Mikimoto]; produced by scientific stimulation of the oyster are in no sense false or imitation...
...crowd of 200 stood around the monument in Manhattan's Columbus Circle, waiting for the Columbus Day ceremonies to begin. Just as someone was about to start the speechmaking, shots rang out a few blocks away. Reporters and cameramen raced toward the sound. They found a badly wounded holdupman who had tried to rob a store; an hysterical girl who had helped him; a dozen policemen...
...which they built up, the "Vans" have always been shy of publicity. But many a success writer has written of their rise from newspaper selling with pooled assets of $16.32 to a position where they control 29,704 miles of track with Cleveland's new Union Terminal as their monument. The Depression has brought a severe strain on the holding companies which bind their empire and there has been many a rumor that they have lost control. Once, when such reports were at their height, Brother Mantis was off duckshooting and Brother Oris was calmly addressing New England Governors...