Word: colossus
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...words) of current books, about eight shorter condensations or excerpts from other works. Book Digest pays publishers $100 for long condensations, runs no advertisements, claims 50,000 circulation. Publishers liked the idea, for they had noted increased sales of such books as Reader's Digest, pocket-size colossus, digested each month...
...little Spanish town of Yerba Buena in California had not changed its name to San Francisco (St. Francis) in 1847, it might forever have lacked a colossus. It might also have been spared a long and bitter argument about that project which has involved its creator, Beniamino Benvenuto Bufano, with the City Fathers, the Franciscan Order, the Archbishop of San Francisco, the Federal Art Project and, last and most lathered of all, Columnist Westbrook Pegler. Mr. Pegler discovered San Francisco's proposed colossus early this month and slapped it square on the button...
First complaint against WLW came before the original license expired from the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission. The 500-kw. power emanating from the Crosley Colossus interfered with a neighboring wave length assigned to station CFRB (Toronto). WLW raised a new antenna designed to control the direction of its broadcasting, turned its terrific voice away from Canada. But in the U. S. a different kind of complaint arose. Although WLW's license continued to be extended for six-month periods, it remained officially experimental. Owner Crosley was, nevertheless, in business - so much so that he raised WLW charges...
...tomorrow? Can the nation which seems destined to rule an empire in the East be ignored by western statesmen? What of Spain? Will she ever regain her position as a power in Europe? And if so, where will her support be placed? What of America? What of the colossus of the West, the nation still thinking in terms of nineteenth century isolation, still shrinking from the cold, harsh realities of world politics...
...librarian's conviction that when the public handles the books they are mislaid and inefficiency results. This hostile attitude toward the student who has not mastered the intricacies of the Dewey system is carried to unreasonable extremes. The librarian's passion for order has helped make Widener an uncongenial colossus devoid of all human warmth...