Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About the Coronation of Alexander II of Russia. (A letter from Julian Fane, on the staff of the British Embassy, to Lady Rose.) "The Emperor and Empress both went through their parts admirably . . . On entering the Church, both fall on their knees and touch the floor with their foreheads, and...
In this type of nonsense a serviceable cast is essential, and with a single exception the players were skillfully selected. The exception was Wallis Clark who worried the role of the elder Castlebury much as a stout puppy worries an enormous bone.
10) New nitrogen-fixating bacteria will be developed which will quadruple crops, and by the resultant fall of prices, agricultural States will be temporarily ruined. The same agents, introduced into the sea, will cause an enormous glut of fish as food.
" The loss of life in this zone was enormous and at one place we counted about a score of bodies blocking the river. Catholic mission station was demolished and the French priest, Alric, and 18 scholars and 30 members killed.
The aerodynamic principles of the airplane are being used in the construction of racing automobiles. After much experimentation in the wind tunnel or aerodynamic laboratory, the Farman Brothers, famous plane constructors, have produced an enclosed racing automobile with all aluminum body, which is of perfect streamline form. The cutting down...