Word: giant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seaplane terminal far outstripping anything existing in the U. S. Last week, first with a spade and then at the controls of a steam shovel, he gouged out the first scoopful of sand in his $13,000,000 project. The hiss of steam as he inexpertly spilled half the giant spoon's earth near the waiting truck was not less searingly exultant than the blast that came from the swart, little Mayor of New York: "This will be to Newark as Kirsten Flagstad is to Gypsy Rose...
...TIME'S Managing Editor John Stuart Martin: the North American tuna record ; by bringing to gaff an 821-pounder off Liverpool, Nova Scotia. U. S. sportsmen penetrated these old market fishing grounds three years ago, attracted by reports that the giant, powerful "horse mackerel" grew big and were more plentiful there than anywhere else. Previous Liverpool and North American record was a 788-pounder caught last August by Dr. John R. ("Goat Gland") Brinkley of Del Rio, Texas. Last month Mrs. Earl Potter of Brookville, L. I. won the women's world record there with a 757-pounder...
...rich as his eye for observed detail is acute and his prose style is limpid. Sample: ''Above me rose the immensity of the primeval forest, filtering the golden sunlight, as it has done since the dawn of terrestrial life. In the bowels of this woody giant scampered the trembling feet of little rats, furry squirrels, countless birds, and scaly lizards...
...remarkable piece of descriptive prophecy: "The most ambitious idea in the way of reclamation and the development of water power ever formulated is now in process of development. The idea contemplates turning the Columbia River back into its old bed in Grand Coulee, by the construction of a giant dam, the reclamation of between one and two million acres of land in Grant, Adams and Franklin counties. . . ." The prophecy has been borne out by the New Deal's Grand Coulee...
...giant for a Japanese, Admiral Yonai stands 5 ft. 10 in his big-toed socks and is filling his first big political post. All his life a sea officer, shrewd enough to avoid political squabbles, 57-year-old Mitsumasa Yonai received the flag of a Taisho or full admiral only last December, though he had been a Chui or sublieutenant under the great Togo at the Battle of Tsushima Strait. Affable with junior officers he is extremely popular in the service. More important for the present war, there is probably no Japanese flag officer who knows more about China...