Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The audience is expected to be enormous, in spite of a stiff tariff. As in all audiences part can be expected to appreciate the play, and applaud opportunely, while the rest will be good Romans. During the intermission there will be a feature act in mule-driving. This weeks drama...
¶ Nelson Harding, whose "Intolerance" figure is reproduced, won the Pulitzer Prize of 1927 for his picture of Colonel Lindbergh flying to Mexico with his plane casting a cruciform shadow labeled "Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men." At the end of August he drew a telling picture called "The Big...
¶ At Minnesota, a gigantic lineman named Bronko Nagurski outran his team mates in a race. Observing this, Dr. Spears, Minnesota's coach, summoned the rapid hulk and took him out of the line. Dr. Spears was looking for a successor to famed Herb Joesting who pushed his backfield bravely...
3. Lastly, you read an editorial clipping which stated that Toronto, where the government owns the electric plants, supplies electricity at the rate of two cents per kilowatt hour; while in Alabama, electricity is produced in a government plant at less than two cents per kilowatt hour and then sold...
There were about 20,000 people in the quiet stands; a cold rain dripped from the smutty sky and early autumn mist closed in around Meadow Brook. Airplanes rose suddenly from invisible fields and flew low across the enormous billiard table of turf; a Scoreboard said "Argentine-6; U. S...