Word: monumentalized
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...attracting visitors up the single path, Harvard Ave., to investigate the name of the claimant to such relative magnificence. Every Memorial Day witnesses the press of scores of people to the central eminence, whence they may enter into a spirit of the services held at the base of this monument. It is the subject of considerable surprise that the latter remains very meagerly decorated. Years ago, when a fence surrounded the spot, an occasional wreath was deposited within. One little old lady used to appear regularly and translate the Latin inscription for the benefit of the curious. She always left...
...resemble (except for a galley funnel) the oldtime Viking ships, which reached Havana last week from Port Palos, Spain, after a 42-day voyage. Aboard: a crew of four and Captain Gerhard Folgero, good friend of the late Explorer Amundsen. Their aim: to collect funds to erect an Amundsen monument...
...Adopted a resolution to erect a $50,000 monument to the late William Crawford Gorgas, the Army's surgeon general who rid the Panama Canal Zone of yellow fever...
...expresses architecturally the purposes of the constitution.* Its classic colonnade, its symbolic sculpture, its lofty and spacious trading floor are character transmuted into form. Surrounded by towering office buildings it stands alone, withdrawn somewhat, from the street by a cordon of green lawn and foliage, a massive and enduring monument to the ideals of its founders and those who carry...
...money." Citizens of Philadelphia, turning from their daily preoccupation with the Civil War, were glad to read Merchantman John Wanamaker's announcement, found him as good as his word, helped him turn over his stock so fast that soon he was Philadelphia's biggest merchant, civic monument, U. S. phenomenon...