Word: brobdingnagians
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...dozen-odd playoff games are the only really significant ones of the year. In them the half-dozen leading teams battle for possession of the world's championship Stanley Cup. The Brobdingnagian encounter between Maroons and Red Wings last week was the first of a three-out-of-five series between the group leaders. The Red Wings-ablest team in the League on their pre-playoff record, built around a crack forward line (Larry Aurie, Herb Lewis, Marty Barry) which scored no points during the season-won the second game, 3-to-0 and the third, in Detroit...
...operating profit per ton of steel. On each of 3,553,999 tons delivered, the company made an operating profit of about $7.50 against $5.36 for the full year 1934. Thus it was clear that U. S. Steel had got a firmer grip on the costs of its Brobdingnagian household. Nonetheless the directors, still unconvinced that Recovery is here, voted last week to continue the preferred dividend...
...crowd had come to see stood up. Joe Louis (pronounced Lewis) of Detroit, whose exploits in the past year have made him the hero of as lively a ballyhoo as U. S. sports-pages have ever seen, was now about to engage the most dangerous adversary of his career, Brobdingnagian Primo Carnera. For a moment the two men stood with their seconds at the centre of the ring. Swarthy Carnera looked darker than khaki-colored Louis. Then the bell rang and the fight began...
...next to godly professor thereupon stripped under the Sinaitic sun, and began to pour water over himself, while crowds of little native children, gathering to get a ringside view of this naked Brobdingnagian, began to point at him and repeat something in Arabic over and over again. No mean linguist, the professor realized to his shame that they were crying, "Look! He hasn't got any! Look! He hasn't got any!" This had never happened before, and our hero blushed a deep crimson, and kept on washing. "All giants," an unwashed monk later told him, "according to the local...
...Jack Torrance. Louisiana State's 275-Ib. weight-thrower, with a Brobdingnagian heave of 57 ft., 5 in. that broke all previous world's records, official or otherwise: the 16-lb. shot-put in an international track meet at Oslo, Norway...