Word: giant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Three giant star-dust "wedding rings" in the Milky Way, in the form of planetary nebulae, probably hundreds of times larger than the solar system, have been discovered in the southern sky by Mrs. Muriel M. Seyfert, Research Assistant of the Observatory staff...
...sufficiently aware of the physiological necessity of exercise. To answer Mr. Jones out of his own mouth, Harvard does not want humanity to be deprived of a genius before he has reached his prime due to some insidious malady that could have been prevented had the mental giant developed proper physical habits at a formative stage...
Profits of U. S. corporations continued last week to reflect Recovery, thus encouraging the Stock Market to reach a new 1936 high. The 1935 earnings of 21 giant utility systems, representing more than 80% of the light & power industry, were estimated at about 10% above 1934 returns. The Interstate Commerce Commission reported that Class I railroads had a 1935 net operating income of $500,000,000 against $465,000,000 in 1934. Industrials were far ahead of 1934 but not nearly so far ahead as was indicated by early results. The Chicago Journal of Commerce reported that the first...
...Opera three years ago shocked her audience (TIME, July 31, 1933), Miss Corona showed herself at the Waldorf in a shining little shift and neat metallic girdle, while before her paraded still more socialites as the great love-women of history. Finally in marched 54 debutantes, each bearing a giant candle, 18 maids of honor, a giant birthday cake borne by four chefs, and Oscar of the Waldorf. Franklin Roosevelt was much pleased, for the four balls which he attended by proxy were but samples of many others. They varied in size from the one held at Tacna, Ariz...
...finest antelope in Africa, the Giant Sable, an animal with the lines of a thoroughbred horse, is nearly extinct. The Nyala, once abundant, the Mountain Nyala and the Barbary Stag, have been shot down to scattered survivors...