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...Today a behemoth University negates the real potential of Harvard's seven Houses, and unless well-planned efforts are made, the situation will grow worse as the University grows larger. It remains to be seen whether President Pusey's Administration will choose, or be able, to make those efforts...

Author: By George H. Watson jr., | Title: The Harvard House System | 2/26/1957 | See Source »

...other office buildings, the prospect of at last being in one building by 1960 was welcome. But with an opportunity to build the largest structure in Washington (and second in size among federal buildings only to the Pentagon across the Potomac), the State Department settled for another massive, untrimmed behemoth with about as much esthetic appeal as a concrete bunker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Monumental Dullness | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

...guards are Prescott Evarts (a relocated fullback) and Brian King. Another acquisition from the backfield, Carl Framke, is the starting center. A strong contender for the same position, Gus Alexander, a 6-5, 230 pound behemoth, has been out with injuries for most of the season...

Author: By James W. B. benkard, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 11/1/1956 | See Source »

...Behemoth Creature. Earthquake was Captain James B. McGovern, 32, of Elizabeth, NJ. He flew P-40s and Mustangs over China with Major General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force, knocked down four Jap planes. When Chennault formed his Civilian Air Transport (CAT) to help the Nationalists against the Red Chinese in China, Earthquake signed up. Once the transport he was flying was attacked by Chinese Communist fighters over the Shantung peninsula, but "they missed," Earthquake explained laconically. Later, flying gasoline to the hard-pressed Nationalists in Kunming, he made a forced landing on a river sandbar in Communist territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Earthquake's War | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

...behemoth creature who flies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Earthquake's War | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

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