Word: epic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another great year in the Insull epic was 1910. North of Chicago were ten small towns (Antioch, Grayslake, Barrington, Crystal Lake, McHenry, Dundee, Carpentersville, Gary, Palatine, Arlington Heights) with 15,000 people, each with a local plant and electric service at night. These plants were bought and junked, the transmission systems interconnected and power sent efficiently from one central station. Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois is now regarded as the engineering germ of the great superpower systems. It was the forerunner of Mr. Insull's great Middle West Utilities System, now serving 5,321 communities...
...Three Epic Poets of the Flavian Age," Professor Rand...
...Duke Alexander, cousin and brother-in-law of Nicholas II, handsomely strides in his new autobiography. For several years "Sandro" (the Grand Duke) and "Nicky" (the Emperor) lived with their wives in adjoining suites in the same palace. In Alexander's book, already a best seller, there are epic passages of solemn grandeur and there is enough spice to suit spice-hounds...
...Epic, gruesome is Alexander's eye witness description of the death of Tsar Alexander II, mangled by a nihilist's bomb. "The Emperor . . . presented a terrific sight, his right leg torn off, his left leg shattered, innumerable wounds all over his head and face. One eye was shut, the other expressionless. . . . The agony lasted 45 minutes. Not a detail of this scene could ever be forgotten by those who witnessed it. I am the only one left, all he others are dead, nine having been shot by the Bolsheviks 37 years later...
After the much-publicized Col. William Avery Bishop, one of Canada's best known War aces is Capt. W. R. ("Wop") May, a survivor of the epic battle which ended in the death of Germany's famed Baron Manfred von Richthofen. "Wop" May was at Fort McMurray, Alberta, 1,100 miles away, when Constable Millen was shot. He loaded a bomb rack, took off in an army plane...