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...makes the whole argument of our joining the war to bring the four freedoms to mankind a Gargantuan jest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Against Both Sides | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Safeway Invades New York | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hitler's Hollywood | 4/10/1941 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "LIFE" WILL PUBLICIZE FIRST MEETING OF F.D.R. SUPPORTERS | 10/9/1940 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Men of War | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

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