Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Outside of government subsidy, licensing, and inspection, the greatest need of aviation is increased reliability of engines, especially in planes," concluded Professor Lucke. "Enormous improvements are possible if the people who are capable of making them have the proper incentive. With very little chance of federal aid, this incentive must...
Now, however, the Navy Department is studying a radical departure in airplane motors. Working on the famous Diesel engine principle, air may be compressed to 600 pounds per square inch or more than 40 times atmospheric pressure before delivery to the cylinder. With this enormous pressure liquid gasoline may be...
Grave Gatti Rules the Proud and Profitable Metropolitan Manhattan Bulk. The close of the opera season in Manhattan brought the usual many long articles of sum mary and commentary from the critics, and might have inspired the philosopher with a few reflections. Perhaps the most striking feature to be noted...
The Squier System will gain 165% in speed of transmission over the present code, resulting in enormous savings of unification and time. The result of eight years of experimentation, it will help to solve the pressing problems of interference and congestion of the air lanes raised by the rapid expansion...
You Can't Fool Your Wife. A banal triangle-story of "fashionable society" produced in the usual deluxe, ooze-leather edition way. The chief characters rejoice in enormous stucco palaces-there is a pervasive flavor of butlers, Rolls-Royces and The Book of Etiquette about it all. A bathing...