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...York City's Brobdingnagian Daily News (1,948,759 daily, 3,483,616 Sunday) has finally identified its most popular feature. Its research cost $45,000 and took a year, during which 500-odd different readers were polled every week. Away out in front in the reader-interest race: the Inquiring Fotographer column conducted by Jimmy Jemail on the editorial page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Accosting on the Street | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

...such machine tool had ever been built before. It took 1 7 months to set up, cost $25,000,000, spread over 3,000 acres, now takes 10,000 men to run it. This Brobdingnagian tool is the' Navy's great new air station at Jacksonville, Fla.-"Jax" for short. Last week, as it spun into full speed, out came its first sample products-three young Ensigns in the U.S. Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAVY: Jax | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

Thus Roosevelt faced a Brobdingnagian chore. He must now win back to his side not a mere electoral majority but a working majority-a far larger number-of the country's citizens. In these inflamed times it was a task for a leader of Lincolnian humility, Wilsonian morality, and the clear, direct leadership of George Washington. Only the truth would persuade men now; the U. S. was sick to death of half-truths and cloudy words; of Presidential silences; of learning in 1940, from an American White Paper, what had gone on in the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POST-ELECTION: To the Lighthouse | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Ohio State, with a 215-lb. quarter back named Don Scott and two Brobdingnagian tackles - 225-lb. Jim Daniell and 260-lb. Jim Piccinnini - looked like the No. 1 threat. Considered only fair-to-middling at the start of the season, the Buckeyes sprang the surprise of the Big Ten when they conquered touted North western three weeks ago and followed it by beating Minnesota. In downtown Columbus' Broad & High quarterbacks stopped heckling Coach Francis Schmidt even after the Bucks were defeated 23-to-14 by Ivy Leaguer Cornell last week, began to count the days until November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midwestern Front | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...whanging out this Brobdingnagian music was a prim, bald-headed carillonneur named Kamiel Lefre, No. 1 bellwhanger of the U. S. carillonneur of the Riverside Church and president of the North American Guild of Carillonneurs. Hard at work inside a little wooden booth at one end of the platform, through a glass window he could be seen pulling, slapping and stamping at the levers and pedals of the most complicated piece of bell-ringing machinery in the U. S. When he had boomed his last bong, Carillonneur Lefre emerged from his booth in a dignified sweat, took off his gloves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bellwhangers | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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