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Word: enormouse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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On the other hand, however, a great deal is being done. The Shannon electricity scheme is proceeding at enormous expense. When completed the Free State will have a large, cheap source of power and there will then, so say observers, be no reason why the industrialists should not meet competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Politics in Ireland | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

"Remember this too: we in Britain have 40,000,000 of people who are consumers and we are doing an enormous lot of business with you. . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Empire Interpreters | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

The Significance of a new Wells book nowadays is somewhat the same as one more cake of yeast in a maturing batch of beer. To the enormous public that reads him, Mr. Wells long since imparted the whole quality, if not the whole quantity, of his fine ferment. Meanwhile might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Aug. 15, 1927 | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

Five years have passed since genial Mr. Bottomley was led into a cell for converting to his own use £5,000 ($24,300) of the really enormous sums which his fervent oratory had helped to raise for War purposes. To be sure the judge who sentenced Mr. Bottomley stigmatized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ticket-of-Leave-Man | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

Nikola Tesla, genius extraordinary of electricity, predicted last week as he has been predicting since 1895 or so that enormous stores of power will some day be broadcast by radio; when that is possible, that airplanes will need no fuel. They will fly indefinite lengths of time on current flashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Damn Good Man | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

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