Word: giant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foot harpoon prepared. In Washington, the Bureau of Fisheries said it might be an alligator gar, which reputedly grows, sometimes, to be 20 ft. long. Other guesses: water-logged tree trunk, sunken barge, eruption of subterranean gases throwing up leaf accumulation, devil fish, sturgeon, or Old Blue, the legendary giant catfish of the Mississippi who every so often gets stuck in a canal lock or nudges in the bottom of a barge. As Diver Brown prepared for his first descent, Newport called an unofficial holiday. Lining the shore were hundreds of out-of-towners munching Farmer Bateman's barbecued...
Mikhail Gromov is a Soviet airplane pilot who holds both the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of Lenin. He is fiercely proud of his position in Red aviation. He was the regular pilot of the U. S. S. R.'s giant Maxim Gorky, probably owes his life to the fact that he was ill and another pilot was at the controls on the May day in 1935 when a stunting pursuit ship crashed into the Maxim Gorky, sent it down to destruction with a loss of 49 lives. Month ago when three of Gromov...
...informal invitation with which Dr. Einstein habitually greeted callers at his office during his business career. In New Faces he functions as a mysterious friend of the scalawag producer, executes nothing resembling his press-release pose (see cut, p. 30) with the vaudeville team of Lowe and Giant Kite, who have bit parts...
Surging through the giant turbines of Boulder Dam, the Colorado River can now produce 1,240,000,000 kilowatt hours of electric energy per year which is piped 267 miles to Los Angeles over six hollow copper cables 11 in. in diameter. In an engineering enterprise of this magnitude unique solutions of special problems are likely to occur. One such solution publicized in Los Angeles last week was the way in which radio communication is maintained with the 14 repair crews which patrol the transmission line in automobiles...
...antelopes, elephants, hippopotamuses, assorted naked savages, waving grass. Goriest scenes are young Masai tribesmen sucking up the blood of a dead bullock, black coolies scooping out elephant feet to make wastebaskets for the U.S. market. Cinematic Afrophiles will relish the rare, sleek okapi, a herd of sunbathing hippos, the giant Latukas whose hunters tower seven feet tall, and the mystic snake dance of the Mariari cult...