Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"The manufacture of gold from mercury is in line with the latest developments of modern chemistry and physics", he said, "and it may quite probably be accomplished in the near future. Theoretically, synthetic gold is quite possible, but the practical difficulties which must be overcome before it can be manufactured...
Dick, so the story goes, was a poor lad who found his way to London and was taken into the service of the merchant Fitzwarren. To rid himself of the mice in his garret-bedroom, he bought a cat for a penny. As it was a custom for all the...
Mr. Newman is unmerciful to the man Wagner. His object is not, however to condemn him, but to make him the more real by the contrast of his pettiness and infirmities of character with his essential greatness of achievement. There is an enormous gap, we find, between the man and...
LaFollette's Case. On these grounds Candidate LaFollette erected a case maintaining that: 1) If Pennsylvania's quota is $600,000, the National Republican treasure trove must be $4,000,000 or $5,000,000; 2) "Use elsewhere" meant use in the Middle West; 3) "This campaign to raise enormous...
Although a work of history was once condemned to go readerless because of a reviewer's remark-it was the only remark, in fact, that he made on the volume-that it weighed 14 Ibs.; although the publishers of the last edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica did not, by...