Word: monumental
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...could have got it there nobody knew. All the men in Cambridge went out and fired at it with their revolvers, but it was three or four hours before any one hit it. Then again they put a large tin cap on the top of the soldiers' monument on the common. It took all of the hook and ladder companies and a windy speech of the mayor's to get it off. There used to to be some knockers in college then. Two or three of them would tackle a whole crowd, and fight till they cleaned them...
...Garfield monument fund at Cleveland amounts to $95,000. $250,000 is wanted...
...Prince of Wales, at a meeting lately held in Westminster Abbey to consider the scheme for a monument to Dean Stanley, after alluding to the dean as his teacher at the University of Oxford and as a friend, spoke in complimentary terms of our minister, Prof. Lowell, and of the cordial reception Dean Stanley had met in America...
...committee was appointed at Washington yesterday to procure a suitable monument for Webster...
...American Inner Secretary," said my guide; "he was killed by a tribe of Indians who lived near Boston; a dinner was then given in honor of his memory, and by the sale of tickets, funds for this statue were raised. Great disputes arose about the affair, however, and the monument was sent here for safe-keeping." Near by was a machine like a coffee-mill, with a trumpet-shaped mouth. "This," said my friend, 'is the great Tunnylaff or Marking-machine. It is in use in the Great College at America. A student's name is put in the hopper...