Word: gargantuans
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...Sparrows? Not chronicled by Eve Garrette Grady, for it came only last week, was Russia's laugh of the year?a Gargantuan belly-quake which rocked the Union and was not suppressed by Soviet censors...
...Producers & Distributors of America last week announced that, because of complaints of many censor boards, the famed udder of the cow in the Mickey Mouse cartoons was now banned. Cows in Mickey Mouse or other cartoon pictures in the future will have small or invisible udders quite unlike the gargantuan organ whose antics of late have shocked some and convulsed other of Mickey Mouse's patrons. In a recent picture the udder, besides flying violently to left and right or stretching far out behind when the cow was in motion, heaved with its panting when the cow stood still...
...automobile industry can often boast. In 1929 it boasted of its great production record of 5,620,000 cars & trucks. In 1930 production was about 3,500,000. But motormakers still had cause to boast. With pride they could point to the fact that their gargantuan industry devours 82% of the rubber, 55% of the plate glass, 15% of the iron & steel, 57% of the upholstery leather, 30% of the aluminum, 14% of the copper, 15% of the hardwood, 24% of the lead, 80% of the gasoline consumed in the U. S.; that it fills 3,080,000 freight cars...
...table was placed on the laboratory lawn, held on it a white cake with nine candles and nine big red apples. While the children sang "Happy Birthday to You" and shouted "Many happy returns," Doc Dobbin bobbed his head, ate all the apples, gobbled the whole cake in three Gargantuan bites...
Last week, Dr. Small returned to New York to take care of his gargantuan flower garden. Iris plants, of which there are more than 200 species, ordinarily do not grow taller than three feet. One of the smallest known, a Chinese variety, is only three inches in height. Dr. Small is afraid his transplanted iris will be stunted by the northern climate, will grow to be only about four feet tall. If they flourish, he plans a public exhibit next spring...