Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In Manhattan, sloe-eyed Italian children competed in a baby show. Some were knock-kneed, some astigmatic, round-shouldered, swivel-hocked, unduly thin; some spilled their milk with mild equability, as if a saucepan in their stomachs were softly frothing over. But well-nigh perfect was Anthony Chieco. He was...
Critics of intercollegiate football are fond of stressing the commercialism that the enormous popularity of the game has injected into college athletic. But we have never seen it properly blamed for the extravagant sentimentality which is associated with the thing called college spirit. How could one die for dear old...
The reasons? Innumerable, interlocked and complicated; partly the successful conclusion of the Locarno Conference (see Page 11), partly the result of extraordinary rumors of an enormous merger in the automobile industry; partly a mechanical culmination of the last feverish weeks-the interest of J. P. Morgan & Co. in U. S...
Certainly no baseball pitcher, perhaps no player in any game, had a triumph equal to Mathewson's in the famed World Series of 1905. Plank, the mainstay of the Athletics, was a fine pitcher, heady and fast, but he could be scored on, Mathewson could not. There were other...
"Unless man's capability to handle the enormous civilization he has created is increased the organization is likely to annihilate him." Thus Raymond Fosdick in his address before the Institute of Arts and Sciences at Columbia expresses a fear which all intelligent moderns must eventually feel. No one who appreciates...