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Word: enormouse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile the United States is allowing its forces to degenerate into merely nominal fighting units. General Pershing's warnings have gone unheeded before a penurious or misguided Congress. And in the Navy, which is perhaps even more important for all emergencies, chasers and destroyers are allowed to disintegrate at their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR STUNTED NAVY | 10/27/1923 | See Source »

It would be easy to explain the enormous growth in the popularity of English during the past two years in either of two ways. By an ingenious argument it might be demonstrated that rumors about the extension of the tutorial system to the field of English were attracting aspirants; equally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THAT LIBERAL EDUCATION | 10/26/1923 | See Source »

"Before the war," Colonel McIntyre continued, "we were equipped with three inch guns, now in use at Harvard's R. O. T. C. unit. When we entered the war, it became necessary to get enormous quantities of all field artillery equipment and materials, and consequently the French, British, and American...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LATEST ADVANCES IN ARTILLERY DISCUSSED | 10/24/1923 | See Source »

Britain today is potentially not less wealthy than she was before the War. She can grant enormous credits to her Dominions and Colonies in the shape of materials. Materials, such as machinery, rails, structural steel, cement, etc., would call for increased labor in the Dominions to put 'them to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Imperial Conference | 10/22/1923 | See Source »

If Wall Street is correct in the statement that Henry Ford is going into the oil business, the confusion and consternation caused thereby will be enormous. Mr. Ford, it seems, intends to establish gas stations which will sell gasoline exclusively to Ford owners at sixteen cents a gallon. The fearful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INDUSTRIAL SQUEAKS | 10/8/1923 | See Source »

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