Word: giant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mortensen, onetime Southern California javelin-throwing champion; George Spitz, N. Y. U. freshman who high-jumped well over six feet when he was a school boy and now holds the world's unofficial indoor record; Barney Berlinger, Pennsylvania's all-around man; Herman Brix, blond Los Angeles giant who had won the shot-put championship three years in a row and won it again last week; Eddie Tolan, Michigan's stubby Negro, and many another runner who has not yet been outrun by renown. The red track in Lincoln's municipal stadium was fast and hard...
...twister struck the Empire Builder broadside just behind the tender. The baggage car coupling snapped like thread. The vacuum sucked coach after coach up from the track, lifted them like a giant's playthings through the air, flopped them down on their sides along the right-of-way. As the storm swirled away eastward, torrents of rain fell upon a wreck unique in U. S. railroading...
...giant C.P.R...
...lowest tones in nature are made, not by thunder as many might think, but by giant waterfalls, according to an announcement made last week by Dr. William Braid White, acoustic expert for American Steel & Wire Co. (U. S. Steel subsidiary). Dr. Braid offered as evidence sound waves photographed this spring at Niagara Falls. The sound of water falling from a great height, or the echolike undertone that falling water makes, shows from 30 to 42 cycles of vibratory waves. Thunder's pitch is considerably higher, starting at 50 cycles and crashing sometimes as high as 40 cycles above Middle...
...editor of the Chattanooga News, upon the discovery of 20,000 letters to and from the great-lunged, short-legged Illinois Senator. Under the dusty eaves of an old barn at Greensboro. N. C., was found this treasure of historical correspondence. It belonged to Robert Dick Douglas, the "Little Giant's" grandson who turned it over to Editor Milton for use in connection with the latter's forth coming Douglas biography.* Declared Mr. Milton...