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...Near here is the battlefield of San Jacinto, the decisive battle of the war for Texas independence. ... As a permanent memorial of the Texas Yorktown there has been erected the most beautiful monument in the world...
Wrote opinionated old Portraitist Augustus John: "To have him portrayed permanently on his legs or somebody else's (even without walking stick!) would be an intolerable solecism, dishonoring to a great and unvanquished spirit, and a lasting monument to British ineptitude only." Opera Singer Marjorie Lawrence, like Roosevelt a polio victim, asked "Why not present...
...past the friars of Grazie kept stoves burning day & night behind the wall to drive the winter damp out. This winter they have no coal, and humidity, unchecked, will do more damage. A task force from the Italian Art Monument Department has made plans to rebuild the refectory. Professor Emilio Lavagnino, chairman of the Government committee in charge of the fresco, guessed gloomily that his work "offers a possible guarantee to keep the picture in some recognizable form for another 30 years-not more...
While the 15-inch refractor remains, though merely as a monument to the past, the meridian circle equipment has long gathered dust in an obscure store-room. In the meantime, astronomic investigation at the University, with the Summer House Hill establishment as control center, has assumed Herculean proportions, its activities diversified, its observation posts so scattered over the face of the earth that it may truly be said, "The stars never shine without the eye of Harvard upon them...
...generation, introduced to the U.S. public more than a dozen years ago (TIME, June 5, 1933), Men of Good Will has been admired from a safe distance by many, praised to the skies by a few, actually read in its entirety by still fewer. It stands as a monument to the almost incredible industry and endurance of Novelist Romains and his readers. A vast, inchoate panorama, as broad as all Europe and 25 years long, its net effect is more nearly that of a giant notebook than of a novel...