Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Spinning along through sidereal space as is their custom, an enormous, hot heavenly body and a tiny cold one arrived last week at relative positions such that the tiny one shut off part of the light shed by the enormous one upon a third, a moderate-sized body covered with...
The Significance. Standing before this bear-cage in the literary zoo we say: What an enormous creature! How shaggy and powerful! How he lumbers about, yet they say a grizzly can outrun a horse! And when we have gazed our fill, we say: What a dirty, littered cage! An unkempt...
Just 100 years ago a babe with an enormous head and wide, staring eyes was born at the Chateau de Blowitz, near Pilsen, Bohemia. Half a century later one Henri Stephan de Blowitz, jack of all trades, paunchy ne'er-do-well, sought the Paris office of the famed...
He was given a fortnight's trial. Everyone laughed at his huge head, his flamboyant whiskers, his enormous white cravat-at what was later called his "Blowitzerie."
"The second reason lies in the operation of this plan to give its promoters and bankers an enormous immediate profit."