Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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I have heard much talk of systems and formulae. Most of it seems to me sheer nonsense. To some extent education may be aided by system, but more often will be hindered by it. No two men are exactly alike. Among the Satellites these differences are enormous. Yet all systems...
Last Black Friday that is, March 13 when the Messrs. Jesse L. Livermore (Manhattan) and Thomas Howell (Chicago) loosed an avalanche of wheat and rye that proceeded right through the bottom of the grain market, Mr. Arthur Cutten (Chicago) was notably annoyed and the U. S. Department of Agriculture was...
Minds battled like searchlights fencing in a night sky. Reti of Czecho-Slovakia, who can play 25 games blindfolded, made an "oversight" which cost him a game in a few moves. Marshall of the U.S. held his own. But there was one man who played as if an immobile, enormous...
In attacks upon towns, gases and vapors are not very effective (except, of course, that they would cause indescribable panic) for the simple reason that rooms above the ground, level are fairly complete anti-gas chambers, provided that no fires are lit to draw air into them. The destructive capacity...
The British resumption assures our credit system that its enormous accumulation of gold will not be negatived by refusal of foreign countries to return to the gold standard. Several European currencies will presumably follow the British example, especially those of Spain and the Scandinavian countries. Other countries, in worse condition...