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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRASS TACKS | 3/26/1937 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY ACQUIRES LONG-SPINED REPTILE | 3/2/1937 | See Source »

...Robert Wadlow could look down at Primo Camera, gargantuan prizefighter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Alton Giant | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 11, 1937 | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: War Games & Mothers | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

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