Word: giant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of laymen's hopes, the question of life on Mars will probably not be solved when Caltech's 200-inch telescope gets into action (perhaps next year). The giant instrument will show Mars larger but not much clearer, on account of atmospheric distortion. The light by which earthlings see Mars is reflected sunlight-and that means light which has passed twice through the Martian atmosphere and once through the Earth...
...contenders, who has been among the top ten for the past six years and is famed not only as a tumblebug and crowd pleaser (he is almost as efficient horizontally as vertically) but also as one of the greatest retrievers in the history of tennis. Long famed as a Giant Killer, Tumblebug Grant, who wears shorts to avoid wear & tear on his trouser knees, will be watched by the Davis Cup Committee more closely than ever this year. Among the tennis giants he has harassed into submission are Jack Crawford, Adrian Quist and Jack Bromwich, the three formidable Australians...
Next move was Groesbeck's. In eastern Washington, Bond & Share's small Washington Water Power Co. (450 miles of lines) has been threatened with competition from giant U. S. power plants at both Grand Coulee and Bonneville. Last month it sold $22,000,000 of 3½% 25-year bonds for refunding and new construction at the gilt-edged price of 105. Unworried investors gobbled up the issue...
...less than 70 acres and on most such farms horses are the only tractors Year and a half ago Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co. invaded this market with a cheap light tractor. Last year Deere & Co followed; month ago Motormaker Henry Ford. No jitney tractor, however, was announced by the giant (29½%) of the power implement industry; tough, sprawling International Harvester...
Last week the giant labored and produced Farmall-A, a $515† tractor. Its points...