Word: monumentalized
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...approved of Rupert Hughes' views on George Washington (see p. 9), he pointed out of the window behind his desk to the aluminum tip of a white marble obelisk rising 555 ft. 5⅛ in. in the air, 3,000 ft. southward, and with a dry smile remarked: "The monument is still there...
...would not do after all. Mrs. Whitney was notified that hers would probably be accepted. But certain members of the Rhode Island chapter of the Institute of Architects inspected Mrs. Whitney's idea and found it "appalling." They notified the memorial committee that they thought that the monument was "of an architectural style entirely alien to our city and our tradition and . . . inappropriate. The site chosen for it is . . . a corner lot. . . ." Mrs. Whitney's hopes fell. Sculptor Montana went to work on a new opus to be called "The Supreme Sacrifice...
...fourth downward pass. Baseball fans recalled that the hard-centred spheroids employed in playing their favorite game have been successfully caught (by catcher Street of the Washington "Senators" and catcher Sullivan of the Chicago White Stockings and others) when dropped 555 feet from the top of Washington Monument...
...funds for this program were presented to Yale by the Alumni Advisory Board, whose committee, under the chairmanship of F. W. Allen, Yale '00, first interested graduates in the proposal. The type and location of the monument were decided upon by the same Board on the recommendation of another committee...
...representative of the Utah Parks Company, Mr. Jones is engaged in developing the natural parks and monuments of southern Utah and northern Arizona, including Zion Park, the northern rim of the Grand Canyon National Park, Cedar Breaks, the Bryce National Monument, and the Kaibot National Forest Reserve...