Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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No panic resulted from the epidemic of mild influenza which for three weeks has spread eastward from California across the continent. Although more than 40,000 people were officially reported sick with the disease and another 200,000 estimated so, the deaths were few. This epidemic has revealed no such...
The Japanese are ardent sports; they play hard and they idolize those who play any game better than they. Thus Gehrig, Tilden, Tunney, Ruth are far greater names to them than that of Tsunenohana, their champion wrestler. Japanese baseball addicts possess a faculty which U.S. fans in some measure lack...
"Let there be light," says the light company; and wiry candles glitter in all the cities of the world, bulbs of light blossom in the street, lights are in the houses, there is gaiety behind bright windows and darkness, enormous, hungry and patient, is compelled to crouch under the ocean...
The fear is the impression your brutally frank description might make on your casual reader, who cannot realize the enormous significance of a personal experience like Beers' being turned to account for the benefit of mankind.
An afternoon sees the Harvard hockey squad working out on a vast sheet of ice, and on the same evening enormous flood lights show great banks of faces gathered around the squared circle of the prize ring.