Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Peace Efforts. By signing the Act of Separation, 474 clergymen and professors surrendered the benefices they held under the Establishment. To provide for them and to build churches was the enormous task Dr. Chalmers and his colleagues undertook. At the end of four years more than 700 churches had been...
During the past twelvemonth the Dictator tried to increase grain production by creating enormous state farms (worked by proletarians) and by sending Communist instructors to coach small farmers in methods for increasing the yield of their arms. Naturally this procedure threatened to undermine the locally monopolistic position of the Kulaks...
In Czechoslovakia there has just been completed The Epic of Slavic History, a series of 20 paintings so enormous that Alfons Mucha, the artist, has been as busy with stepladders as with lexicons. For more than 18 years the work has been under way. The subjects range from earliest Slavic...
In general, the National Horse Show proceeded much as it has in other years. Horsewomen dragged their acquaintances into boxes and compelled them to use constantly whatever odd phrases they knew connected with horses, as "hocks," "hind-quarters," "withers" or "whiffle-tree." Astonishingly pretty girls rode enormous, savage hunters around...
The transmitter consists of a parabolic reflector, at whose butt end is an enormous vacuum tube. The tube sets like the heating element of the common portable electric heaters. The heater's reflector is basin-like. Dr. Kolster's radio reflector is so vast (20 feet across the...