Word: monumentalized
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...parents." Another from the same source, "Hunc Polydorum auri," "A hunk of gold belonging to Polydorus." Horace fares little better when the verse " Parcus deorum cultus et infrequent" is rendered, "The park of the gods was not frequently cultivated. "Another one, "Exegi monimentum are perennius," "I have eaten a monument, and c." Here is one from Livy, "Venus ei candida veste apparuit," "Venus appeared to him with a white vest on." Another from the historian, "P. Scipio equestri genere natus," "Publius Scipio was born at a horse race." Here are two renderings of apparently cognate origin: "Caesaris bonas leges...
...rumor is abroad that Hines, the professional catcher, will attempt to catch a ball dropped from the top of the Washington monument...
Emerson's son, Dr. Edward W. Emerson, who has charge of his father's literary and other effects, is seeking to obtain, as a fitting monument to be placed over the great philosopher's grave, a mass of hard white quartz, with rage sea-green beryls embedded in it. He has men at work in New Hampshire, trying to find what he wants...
...seventy-five men engage in the game constantly during the season. These are for the most part, men of much energy and great animal spirit, whose natures crave some form of stirring excitement. The faculty will do well to consider what sources of excitement will remain, after all purely monument ones have been stopped...
...interior is wrapped in mystery for the student mind. The building is the headquarters of the "Annex." but who knows more? We pass the noble structure with eyes on every window and uncovered heads, and come next to Garden street and the Cambridge common. Here are the Soldiers' Monument, (the figure of which never had a hat on but once, and then when the pitying students helped him to it) and three large cannon which were captured from the French at Quebec and Ticonderoga, in the French and Indian wars. At the further end of the common, just in front...