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Word: enormouse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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That the discovery of the tomb of Tutankh-Amen by the late Lord Carnarvon was of enormous importance, not because of the value of the individual relics of the ancient Egyptians, but because of the fact that the tomb is the only untouched one that has ever been discovered, was...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHASE PRAISES WORK OF LORD CARNARVON | 4/6/1923 | See Source »

No doubt the direct cause for its re-establishment is the enormous popularity among undergraduates of this form of rowing. Last year the record showed that sculls were taken out from the Newell and Weld boat houses more than 5,000 times. These figures naturally recall the days of 1876...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "PLEASURE-ROWING" | 4/6/1923 | See Source »

It is on this rock of observation that the barque of German contentions is likely to founder. There will be difficulty in concealing the five enormous banks and public offices now under construction in Dusseldorf, the new plants and houses which have sprung up and are springing up throughout the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR FOREIGN OBSERVERS | 3/31/1923 | See Source »

Rain in practicable quantities cannot be made by any of the artificial schemes which have been suggested, says the United States Weather Bureau in a statement apparently called forth by the plan of Dr. Wilder D. Bancroft, professor of physical chemistry in Cornell University, and L. Francis Warren, who have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Undaunted | 3/31/1923 | See Source »

The plane undergoing test was a modified form of a similar plane that won the Pulitzer race at Detroit last year. It does not attain quite the enormous speeds made in the race, because military equipment has to be carried. But it is the fastest fighting plane in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: General Mitchell's Smash | 3/24/1923 | See Source »

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