Word: giant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bennett [Prime Minister of Canada, has] merely hinted at the giant plan in hand . . . intimated that some credit arrangement might have to be made to enable China to buy Canadian wheat in large quantities. [He has not attempted] to outline the very interesting and stupendous plan which is now being discussed in London, New York, Washington and Ottawa for the rehabilitation of silver and the general reorganization of oriental trade and markets...
Same day came another call for help. Rioters were attacking the adminstration buildings of the Ford rubber plantation, 500 miles away on the Tapajos River. U. S. citizens were in danger. Para officials waited for no river boats, commandeered a giant Pan American Airways plane, filled it with swarthy policemen, sent it roaring over the treetops to the rescue...
...clamor out there, contrasting rudely with the goodfellow hilarity in the House. Down the broad stone stairway leading from the Capitol gates into the street the advance-guard of a crowd of 500 Communist demonstrators was rushing pellmell. Their jeers rose into the mild, noon air. Led by a giant Negro, they had marched up the steps bearing banners legended: DOWN WITH THE ADMINISTRATION! DOWN WITH DEPORTATION ! WE DEMAND . . . JUSTICE FOR THE FOREIGN BORN...
Sharkey's best fight was a ten-round, uphill, slugging match with George Godfrey, giant Californian negro. Godfrey's immense size and his reputation for viciousness had kept the other heavy-weight contenders dodging him. Sharkey entered the ring, giving away 44 pounds in weight, four to five inches of height, and nearly three inches in reach. He says he battled through the ten rounds "not knowing what it was all about," until his hand was raised...
...same shape as the wooden one but one-third higher, larger, built of 10,000 tons of red and black granite. Over the bronze entrance doors is a 50-ton monolith of black granite with the word LENIN inlaid in letters of red porphyry. Inside the doors, a giant hammer and sickle, carved in stone. Embalmed Lenin lies in an underground room 30 ft. square and 30 ft. high on a slab of black granite, under a convex bubble of glass. Just behind the tomb are the bodies of the Soviet "apostles" including two from the U. S.: John Reed...