Word: gargantuanism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comment on Secretary Knox's rip-roaring speech for using the Navy to clear the seas was 53% against to 25% for. But ex-President Hoover's speech saying that Germany's attack on Russia made the whole argument for the U.S. going to war a "Gargantuan jest" (TIME, July 7) won applause from 58% of the press-more than has applauded him in years-and criticism from only...
...makes the whole argument of our joining the war to bring the four freedoms to mankind a Gargantuan jest...
Below the Pripet Marshes, the offensive went more slowly, because before it could roll, the formidable frontier fortress of Przemysl had to be stormed. And near Luck the Russians offered up a Gargantuan tank battle...
...could do. Major Stanley Umstead, the Air Corps's crack, cigar-chewing test pilot, climbed aboard; his crew of six trailed after him. Stanley Umstead started the four engines from left to right, kicking up a great williwaw of dust as he turned them up. He wheeled the Gargantuan bomber down the field, swung her into the wind, gave her the coal. Rolling hugely down the runway, she picked up her skirts slowly. But she was off, wobbling a bit-her feel was still strange to the man at the controls-in a run of 2,000 feet. Lightened...
Second-largest grocery chain in volume of business, Safeway Stores came out of the West last week, took first steps toward acquiring the Daniel Reeves chain of New York. Reeves's 498 units (215 in New York City) will bring Safeway up to 3,016. Gargantuan A. & P. has over 9,000 stores in the U.S., only 152 in New York City...