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Word: enormouse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The snore of the planes gave the spectators a sensation of excitement. A racing plane, with its enormous dual motors, makes a wilder sound than an ordinary plane. Spectators were reported to be so intent as to pay no attention to ad interim announcements of big football games. Yet an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Italy Champion | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

That there might be some truth in this statement, as shown by the comparatively simple mass-forms of "modern architecture", is not to be denied. However in view of the present day tendency to gaud and show, this is too early a time to even hint at returning sanity. The...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ROCOCO LIFE | 11/17/1926 | See Source »

"There is an enormous mass of minute and curious information in this book, collected from pretty nearly every imaginable source. The most cursory examination of it provokes admiration of the indefatigable industry displayed in the compilation and arrangement of it."--J. Rankin Towse in the New York Evening Post. $4.00...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LATEST HARVARD BOOKS | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

In naming the Shavian as winner, the Swedish Academy has not only shown its customary good judgment but it has also made what might be termed a concession to popular demand. Once hounded and reviled, Shaw is now at most a "lovable" character, with an enormous following. Time has proved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NOBEL MAN | 11/13/1926 | See Source »

Another Wilson, this one C. A., in Houston, Tex., put a white rat in his pocket and got into a cage with a Bengal tiger. The enormous feline, striped with jungle shadow, smelled the trembling rodent in Trainer Wilson's pocket. Wilson was his friend, the rat his enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Prisoner | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

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