Word: monumentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...written, "For God's sake, take care of our people." The Lord Mayor of London started a fund for the dead men's' families. Before long ?90,000 had poured in. It was decided that the surplus should be used not only for a Scott monument but for the advancement of polar research. Professor Frank Debenham, Cambridge University geographer who had traveled with Scott, had an idea that became a vision...
...Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory works a young Briton of Swiss extraction who is indisputably one of the few great mathematical logicians in the world. His Principles oj Quantum Mechanics is a monument of human cerebration. That book is utterly incomprehensible to ordinary men who had never heard of its author until Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac won a Nobel Prize last year. Only a few of the ablest scholar-scientists can follow the chain of symbolic reasoning in Principles of Quantum Mechanics, and among them none is more articulate, more authoritative, more sensible than Sir James Hopwood Jeans, president...
...still believes in "victory." His defense of his own conduct as War Prime Minister of England is detailed but lucid; he writes trenchantly, aggressively, persuasively, in thoughts of one syllable. His book, when completed, will fit more neatly than most into the statesmen's monument to the Unknown Soldier...
Died. Sir Cecil Chubb, First Baronet of Stonehenge, 58; of heart disease; in London. He purchased Stonehenge, England's famed megalithic monument, for $50,000 in 1915, later presented it to his country...
...side by side with Feodor Dostoevsky's The House of Death and e. e. cummings' The Enormous Room, a place will be found for the late Aladar Kuncz's Black Monastery. The record of a five-year imprisonment in France during the War, this book is a subtly horrible monument to man's inhumanity to man. Superficially less gruesome than many a record of front-line fighting, its nightmarish quality develops imperceptibly, will leave most readers shaking their heads in an unsuccessful attempt to forget...