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Word: enormouse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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When first the huge city was flashed upon the screen, its structures stretching with geometric relentlessness into the infinite heavens, its enormous pistons thumping, dynamos roaring, cogwheels whirring, it was agreed that nothing so immense, grand, complete had ever been comprehended by the eye. For a while it seemed as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Mar. 14, 1927 | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

On the topic of the recent censorship campaign, Miss Brady was convinced that the move was made for the sake of Publicity on the one hand, and on the other, to prevent a certain extremely salacious play from reaching New York. "The Virgin Man's one of the plays involved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lesbianism and Homosexuality Have No Legitimate Place on Stage, Says Alice Brady--"Censorship" a Plot, She Charges | 3/12/1927 | See Source »

When ten police men came to take him to court, he fought them off, until one of them grabbed his arms from behind. He went to court and sullenly assured the judge that he was not crazy. The judge saw two enormous fungi where his ears should have been but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Nelson v. Wolgast | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

In the body of his report Mr. Bingham holds out a somewhat vague but nevertheless encouraging promise for a new gymnasium and swimming pool, and further tennis courts and field space, all of which are necessary material adjusts to a successful cuimination of "Athletics for All". Surely, however, there would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SLOW PROGRESS | 3/1/1927 | See Source »

Col. Leonard P. Ayres, Cleveland statistician, sees the U. S. economic condition in the round. Said he last week: "There is evidence that the savings of the American people are so enormous that funds are pressing for investment on every hand. The question is, where will these funds seek employment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Too Much Money | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

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