Word: gargantuanism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blitzkrieg im Westen, which was offered by the Harvard Liberal Union to a jam-packed New Lecture Hall last night, is significant for the cleverly unpolished effect which camouflages its propaganda. It contains none of the gilt-edged-super-collossal-stupendous-gargantuan approach that Hollywood has geared the American public (and even the Harvard student) to lap up. It would have been much more comforting to the wide-eyed undergraduate if this film had been a faked plug for the Hitler machine. We could have laughed at the gum-drop exploits of some Nazi Robert Taylor. But the swift, systematic...
...insure a gargantuan attendance and to break down traditional indifference, London said, a band will make a tour of the Houses just before the meeting to round up students. Speakers will include Assistant Secretary of State Henry Grady and Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, who will discuss the third term issue...
...unscratched, was kept as a member of Germany's elite postwar General Staff. Almost as corpulent as Göring (from years spent sitting behind a desk at headquarters), Wedel has the same talent for organization. Like Göring, he drinks vast quantities of beer, eats gargantuan meals...
Three all time greats will perform in the Stadium, pits and on the Stadium cinders. Georgetown's gargantuan Al Blozis, a Sophomore, who is 6 feet 5 inches tall and who weighs 240 pounds, and has a well nigh perfect physique, may develop to be one of America's greatest weight men. He already holds the American record in the 160-pound shot put at 55 ft. 10 1/2 in., and he may break this record, the I.C.A.A.A.A. record, and perhaps Jack Torrance's World Record in the Stadium pit, which this week has been enlarged to accommodate Blozis...
Observers, noting gargantuan national defense bills being swallowed by the U. S. almost without a murmur, wondered whether the policymakers, the cable-readers, had not misinterpreted the national will for isolationism as a wish for peace at any price. Popular reaction to American White Paper may tell much. But gone were the days when Calvin Coolidge spoke for the nation in saying "The business of America is business." Senator Key Pittman last week seemed almost as out-of-date when he said: "Let the mothers and fathers of America sleep in peace...