Word: giant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...five is Larry Kingman, a steady oarsman from last year's Jayvee crew. His stroke seems to stay fairly smooth consistently. In front of him in the six position is Quinby Taylor, six foot, six inch giant, who, because of his height just about confines his rowing to his arms. This is accentuated by the unusually short stroke that Harvard crews use. He pulls the most water in the boat but seems to have trouble with timing his catch. He came up from the combination crew last spring...
Seated in her private dressing room behind the scenes of the giant amphitheatre where her husband Billy Rose daily wows Fair audiences with his Aquacade, the shapely backstroker turned repturously to the subject of Harvard boys...
...giant star clusters first found by the Blue Hills Observatory last spring have at last been identified, with great importance to astronomical research, Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Blue Hills Observatory, revealed in Fort Davis, Texas, yesterday...
...Chinese for "A Little Bit Of Something Precious") was the first giant panda ever to reach U. S. shores alive. To capture it, Mrs. William Harvest Harkness Jr. spent $20,000 and many months in remote Tibet, two years ago gave the baby giant panda to Chicago's Brookfield Zoo. Mrs. Harkness introduced Su-Lin as a "she," and Chicago's zoologists saw no reason to change the designation...
...Davis' discovery left Brookfield zoologists scratching their heads. They still had one living baby giant panda, Mei-Mei ("Little Sister"). Now they wondered whether Mei-Mei had the right name...