Word: gargantuan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game, but His Majesty and Premier Mussolini, together with foreign military attaches, watched with grave attention the performance of several Italian novelties in war. The so-called "ground clearing tank" duly swept all obstacles before it, thundering forward to make a path 25 feet wide on which followed less Gargantuan motorized equipment. By a characteristic dictation of II Duce, the traditional rivalry of artillery and infantry corps was squashed by compressing the two arms into integrated units, and Fascist newsorgans declared: "For the first time the artillery fought in infantry units, not merely with them...
...himself known. Little time passed before Conductor Anton Seidl made him his assistant for the Brighton Beach concerts. For four years thereafter Herbert led the famed Pat Gilmore band, for six the Pittsburgh Symphony. On Broadway he became a legendary figure. His capacity for work was equaled by his Gargantuan appetite for food and drink...
...Cleveland's vast Municipal Auditorium, but in a smaller chamber than Republicans will occupy for their national convention next week, another party last week held a convention. On the walls, in true political style, hung Gargantuan portraits of the party's departed heroes: Morris Hillquit, Victor Berger, Eugene V. Debs, Karl Marx. The Socialist Convention which assembled below these familiar images was no peace gathering. Not since 1919, when the party split over allegiance to the Third International had it been so divided...
...Kokugi-kan amphitheatre. Spry little Musashiyama, defending yokozuna, ten years younger than Tama-nishiki and 100 lb. lighter, gave a miserable account of himself from the start of the ten-day round robin. Not he but Omekawa, potbellied youngster who had won nine of his ten matches, opposed undefeated Gargantuan Tama-nishiki in the final. The match, of titanic length for Japanese wrestlers, whose endurance is not their most noteworthy characteristic, lasted three minutes. When the referee waved his fan over the winner, puffing Tama-nishiki advanced to the centre of the ring, had himself photographed holding the traditional reward...
...community] is perhaps best reflected by the subjects on which I have been asked to address groups: The Future of the Western Hemisphere, Shakespeare's Message to the World, and What's Worth While in Life. . . . When I have professed my inability to deal with such gargantuan subjects I have almost uniformly sensed a plunge in the respect of my petitioners for me. ... In some cases the reactions have been all but audible, and it has been much as though I had been told, 'You dare to pass yourself as a college president...