Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Not only moralists, but also business men, are becoming deeply interested in the habits of the 400 million odd inhabitants of the Celestial Republic. The buying power of this huge population is enormous-as British textile manufacturers and the Standard Oil in this country proved years ago.
Eventually the first outpourings of his unknown and youthful pen arrived before the public eye. By degrees he worked himself up the literary ladder, grew to know and to be known. Practically all the contemporary British literary and dramatic world is to be met within his pages. There is George...
Goalless Italy is trying out a scheme for utilizing the steam from active volcanic country. Jets called soffioni from boiling pools have been harnessed by sinking iron tubes to a depth of from 200 to 500 feet. At the surface the steam has a pressure of two atmospheres, and there...
He runs his enormous plant on a profit-sharing plan?a plan of bonuses, based on a sliding scale dependent on the dividend rate. His reasons for so doing, he explains as follows: worked in a bank as a young man. I started working at 14, when I left school...
"There is no risk attached to it 'and nothing to lose. This whole subject has appealed to me because I've always had such an enormous interest in life?in the present and the future, but not the past, except the historic past."