Word: giant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workout for the giant Red Army, the invasion of Poland was only a brief sprint. For its significance-the partitioning of collapsed Poland-observers read the political dispatches from Moscow and Berlin...
...radio quaking: 1) Week ago Tuesday night A. P. Correspondent John Lloyd spoke over NBC from Paris at 8:30 EDST (1:30 a. m. Paris time). "The situation is now definite," he was explaining. "There are no more doubts. ..." when suddenly he was drowned out by a giant banshee yowl. "The air raid sirens are now bawling," Reporter Lloyd shouted, and he was heard no more. But the growling, whining, shrieking sirens wailed into U. S. listeners' ears for two full minutes. Then the Paris transmitter quit, and the world heard no more from Paris...
...keep the President up to the hour on the fighting. Black Sunday came, putting Great Britain and France formally into World War II. That evening Franklin Roosevelt went on the world's airwaves to state and define historically the U. S. position, to read his preface to a giant human tragedy from which the U. S. people could not possibly be entirely immune. Said...
...giant pandas, chimpanzees, orangutans and other rare animals in Regent's Park Zoo were moved to more remote Whipsnade. Plans were made to gas all snakes, shoot all dangerous animals the minute war began...
Despite this apparent division of authority, the real control of Harvard's $2000,000,000 worth of property, its $148,000,000 endowment, and her giant domain stretching from the Atkins Botanical Institution in Soledad, Cuba, to the Boyden Observatory in Bleemfentein, South Africa, lies in the bands of seven...