Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The coal situation today presents a curious medley of inconsistencies. Although the strike at the mines has been finally settled, the railroad companies have not enough sound freight cars to distribute the enormous output. This deficiency in rolling stock is a result of the railroad strike. There has been an...
By way of forming a background for the study of the "unchanging East", Bishop Roots gave a brief resume of the enormous size, the vast population, and the stable political history of China. He told of the invasion of the Manchus in the 17th century, and the establishment of the...
Professor Pirenne compared the background which made possible the rise of the merchant class with the situation leading to the growth of enormous fortunes "in Europe" during the Great military and trading elements in the mediaeval city by a blackboard drawing of his native city of Ghent.
In Secretary Hoover's words, "the loss of Dr. Stratton as head of the Bureau of Standards is a real national loss. He has built up that service from a bureau devoted to scientific determination of weights and measurements to a great physical laboratory cooperating with American industry and commerce...
The great educational force of the future will be the postage stamp. The government has declared in connection with the recent issue of stamps: "The educational influence of distributing pictures of Americans and of places in America will be enormous". American History will be taught even to the mail-man...