Word: gargantuans
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Eastern rivalries grow pale beside the gargantuan wars of colleges that lie behind the Rocky Mountains. California and Stanford are two giants who ravage the countryside and then clash together. Last week, before the game, Stanford had won 15 of these clashes and California 12. California rapidly scored 13 points; after the half, Simkins made a touchdown for Stanford; in the last minute Frentrup of Stanford made another. The giants had played their seventh...
Diagnosis. Forecaster Mitchell of the U. S. Weather Bureau spoke of hurricanes. "They are probably gentle little eddies of air at first," he said, "but gather momentum owing to differences in temperature and air pressure until they become gigantic whirls, sucking air toward their central vortices like gargantuan vacuum cleaners." Caribbean hurricanes of more or less violence are common near the autumnal Equinox. Last week's winds were reported to have attained at times the unusual velocity...
What, now, is the purpose of the college? We hear that the college prepares young men for life. That is a laudable (not to say Gargantuan) undertaking. But, since life itself sets no immediate standard of examination for the college, how is a man to discover for years whether or not he has passed the examinations admitting him to the ultimate institution? And even then, how shall he know whether it be because of his college career, or in spite of it? We cannot help feeling, as time goes on, that the influence and the significance of college are beginning...
...broadened until he is loquaciously expensive, who gives critical lectures, or pokes things derogatorily with a cane, the world is indeed too small. For him is such a trip designed. But before he and all his ilk can be bundled with the necessary changes of linen into a gargantuan rocket, the contention that so many foreign bodies in space might disrupt the delicately balanced celestial system, must be treated with gravity. Perhaps it is best that Professor Condit should first blaze the trail. Even if others may not immediately follow, it is entirely possible that he may, first Lindbergh like...
...answer but demands that that paper must come out in acceptable form every morning." Curiously, such inspiration is most needful, as the CRIMSON can bear witness from its own semi-centennial in 1923, when the newspaper is obliged to reverse conventional birthday procedure and treat its readers to a gargantuan supplement...