Word: giant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Back over the tail lie New York and its satellites like a giant Christmas tree blown to the ground, with the lights still burning. Heavy yellow lines mark the trunk and main branches tapering off to isolated pinpoints that try to hold the tip designs, as if the decorators ran short of bulbs...
...yell, and they are cleared. The altimeter hand is late, for we are 1,000 feet ahead of it. At 10,000 feet I can make out land and water. Lloyd's Neck looks like the head of a dinosaur and the next peninsula is like a giant cypress tree...
...also explain inheritance of germ cells through the genes, units supposed also to be giant molecules. "In any case," said Dr. Stanley last week, "it now appears possible to list protein molecules along with living organisms such as bacteria, fungi and protozoa as infectious, disease-producing agents...
...original idea on arriving at Jefferson City was merely to do the history of Huckleberry Finn, but the sight of all that wall space, 1,000 sq. ft. of it, got the better of him. An emaciated Huckleberry Finn is there all right, watching a giant Negro land a fat catfish, but there are in addition Frankie & Johnnie and most of the history of Missouri. A slave trader is lashing a Negro, a buckskinned trapper in a fur cap is shooting his rifle. Mormons are being ridden out of town. There are also a country political meeting, a stenographer drinking...
Small, fiery, once given to soup-bowl haircuts and dark Quaker garments, he has been called "the Little Giant'' for his resemblance to Orator Stephen A. Douglas...