Word: colossus
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...third would have been against the U. S. Government, which for 112 years has reserved for itself alone the right to spank Latin American troublemakers. But President Roosevelt has shrugged off the responsibilities of the Monroe Doctrine, told Latin America that the Colossus of the North, reformed into a Good Neighbor, would not forcibly interfere in its affairs. In theory this means that, in such a case as Barletta's, the U. S. would let Mussolini do his own spanking, send his own warboat to Santo Domingo, where Dictator Trujillo quietly runs one of the world's most efficient little...
...Austen commends the King's "quiet devotion to duty," and one must agree, rejoicing that he has been sensible enough to present the King as a good man in a difficult position, and has not attempted the unreal figure of a Colossus dwarfing the men of his time...
...months California Institute of Technology has wondered where to put the 200-inch telescope for which a 20-ton mirror was poured last spring (TIME, April 2) and for which another mirror will be cast this autumn or winter. Last week Caltech announced that the colossus would be housed on Palomar Mountain, 80 mi. northeast of San Diego, which is neither too close to the sea (fog and clouds) nor to the desert (heat radiation...
...knows just where the Colossus of Rhodes stood, that great bronze statue once spanning the harbor mouth which was one of Philo of Byzantium's Seven Wonders of the World. It was built by Charles of Lindus in 280 B. c., crashed in an earthquake 56 years later. For 880 years bronze fragments of it littered the harbor of Rhodes. Finally in 656 A. D. the tidy Saracens after capturing the island sold the remnants to a junk dealer, who carted them away on 900 camels...
...America needs today another colossus, a superman, capable of giving every city and town and community in America attractive modern homes at lower prices than hitherto possible...