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Word: enormouse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Some recent discoveries," continued the archaeologist, "in fact, the ones on which I lectured at the Fogg Museum, have been made in Northern China by a Russian, Colonel Kozlov. These discoveries consist of a number of early tombs all dating from about the first century before our era which contained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WARNER AND PELLIOT CONTRIBUTE MUCH VALUABLE WORK TO CHINESE ARCHAEOLOGY | 4/29/1926 | See Source »

U. S. Selfridges. Harry Gordon Selfridge Jr., handsome son of U. S.-born and trained Harry Gordon Selfridge and persistently a U. S. citizen, last week on arrival in Manhattan for a brief business inspection, enunciated a new principle of selling in his father's enormous London emporium: Salespersons will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Business Notes, Apr. 12, 1926 | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

FIVE years after winning the David Ames Well prize with his first book "The Economic Causes of Modern War", John Bakeless has now written another remarkable work on international politics. The Great War produced, of course, an enormous literature. During the past years several hundred books have been published dealing...

Author: By Frangis Deak, | Title: The Inside and Outside of Diplomacy | 4/10/1926 | See Source »

This year Dr. Howard T. Barnes of McGill University will try to destroy icebergs at their source, in the Greenland glaciers. Here the ice cap is 7,000 feet thick. Vast bits break off at the sea edges to float south to the Newfoundland banks as bergs. Dr. Barnes hopes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Iceberg Hunt | 4/5/1926 | See Source »

Northwestern University's enormous Patten Gymnasium resounded shrilly with high school cheers. It was the national interscholastic track championships. When the high hurdles were strung out for the 60-yard race, a dusky shadow whisked over them during the heats, and burst the red yarn first in a fleet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interscholastics | 4/5/1926 | See Source »

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