Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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He recalled the "romance in the story of Haym Salomon, Polish Jew financier of the Revolution. Born in Poland, he was made prisoner by the British forces in New York, and when he escaped set up in business in Philadelphia. He negotiated for Robert Morris all the loans raised in...
2) Mr. O'Connor's plan is nebulous. What would happen to U. S. crews on U. S. ships not bought from the Shipping Board? In the case of a mixed crew, how conciliate the non-bonused? What an enormous bookkeeping expense! etc., etc.
Tourist travel from the U. S. to Europe this year promises to be enormous, and serves to pull up foreign currencies in terms of dollars no less than do imports here of European goods.
The difficulties in the way of increasing the Bulgarian Army are, of course, enormous, owing to the opposition of Greece, Yugo-Slavia and Rumania.
At sea, conditions for oceanographic work were "almost miraculous"; deep sea fish had been forced to the surface by the enormous disturbance.