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Word: enormouse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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"I'd take it with enthusiasm myself if I needed it. Fortunately I've always had an enormous amount of vitality which has not shown any signs of failing me yet. But I would not hesitate for one minute if, I felt my powers fagging. I cannot imagine why any...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Oxen? | 3/24/1924 | See Source »

All schools are represented; paintings ranging through chromo, academic and modernist styles in all their manifestations hang in assorted order on the overcrowded walls. The collection contains art good and bad, famous and obscure, enormous and microscopic, bewildering the casual observer by its startling democracy.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Russians | 3/17/1924 | See Source »

"The historical novel has performed an enormous service to the study of history," he said, "and the moving picture has still greater opportunities to link the facts of history to the environment and atmosphere of the epoch. The acrobatic portrait of the old English hero in the moving-picture, Robin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Says Movies Can Portray History | 3/13/1924 | See Source »

John Buchan, as a writer, is a man of enormous power. As the author of adventure stories, such as Mr. Standfast and Greenmantle, he has already won wide recognition as a novelist. As a historian he bids fair to surpass Carlyle, both in the excellence of his style and on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW BOOKS: The Necessary History | 2/25/1924 | See Source »

Mr. Barnes' life story is full of human interest. It is the story of a man who has had to fight against enormous odds. Working at Barrow he says: ". . . we worked over 32 hours per week beyond the normal week of 54 hours." He left Barrow, went to London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Laborlte's Life | 2/18/1924 | See Source »

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