Word: gargantuan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking possession of the premises he settles down for the night in Mrs. Wetherby's guest bedroom. She tries to frighten him by lending him a pair of gargantuan pajamas which, she says, her husband has discarded as too small. In the picture's funniest sequence she puts on a pair of hiking boots, clumps up the stairs in simulation of a drunken male's arrival while Raymond, swathed in yards of striped pongee, listens trembling in his bedroom. Next day, after he has volunteered to act as butler at a dinner she is giving to celebrate...
...heard is only fair. One of the most obvious methods by which this can be achieved is indicated by the system of student managers, broad participation, and consequent undergraduate control which have been so successful at Yale. Only by the adoption of the Council's recommendations can the gargantuan aspects be brought under control, while at the same time its appeal for every man is developed and "athletics for all" made a reality rather than a pious hope...
Dating from the end of the Carboniferous period, this 225 million year old fossiliferous monstrosity was uncovered by a recent Harvard expedition in the "red-beds" of Northwest Texas. On inspection, one must try to visualize a gargantuan turtle with a vertical and flattened rather than a horizontal and curved shell. A series of long bony vertebrae soar skyward in transcending gothic splendor...
...Robert Wadlow could look down at Primo Camera, gargantuan prizefighter...
...Fowlerville, Mich., portly Mrs. Stella Barnhouse was informed she had been declared "World's Best Liar" for 1936 by the Burlington (Wis.) Liars' Club, which awarded her a medal in the form of a miniature lyre. Liar Barn-house's story: To relieve its hunger, a gargantuan Michigan mosquito buzzed into a barnyard, spied a tough old mule named Maud. Halfway down the mosquito's gullet, Maud let go a fierce kick, broke the insect's neck, saved the town...