Word: giant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gustav Mahler will be played at this week's symphony concerts for the first time in many years, Dmitri Mitropoulos, the guest conductor, apparently considering it worthy of a new hearing in Boston. Mahler, late nineteenth and early twentieth century symphonist of strong dramatic tendencies, has been called a giant of composition by his champion, the Bruckner Society. The other side of the question has been opened by Lazare Saminsky, who describes Mahler's "trumpeting through immense formal structures" as merely aggravating "their queer hollowiness." The mass of opinion favors Saminsky, but it is interesting to hear and judge...
Plunging into this black morass with flashlights, hunting parties finally came across a 100-yd. scar in the forest which looked as if a giant scythe had slashed diagonally down through the trees. At one end were a few lopped branches, at the other the crunched remnant of The Southerner's cabin. In between was a confetti of duralumin, mail, cloth, hunks of flesh. Part of a wing was wrapped around a tree 40 ft. off the ground. Blood stains began high on tree trunks, gradually descended until they smeared the stumps. Everywhere was the reek of gasoline...
Considering the fact that snow-planing costs no more than regular flying, the sport is certainly not over-expensive. An approved pair of airplane skis can be obtained for as little as $180. Admiral Byrd paid upwards of $1100 for a pair on his giant tri-motored ship...
...Ones. With the exception of a handful of giant institutions, the 15,994 U. S. banks now open are largely locally owned. Unless an investor happens to be a stockholder, his only interest in these banks is their periodic and anonymous appearance in composite banking figures. However, Chase National Bank, biggest in the U. S., is owned by 92,000 stockholders including John Davison Rockefeller Jr., whose interest is less than 5%. National City has 90,000 shareholders, Guaranty Trust, 24,400. These three biggest U. S. banks have yet to hold their meetings, but most of the other supersolvent...
Ever since the assassination of his brother in 1923, Dictator Gomez has avoided the capital. Seventy-seven miles away at his enormous ranch Las Delicias he sat under a giant rubber tree, feeding peanuts to his pet elephant, beaming fondly at his squalling, illegitimate offspring, governing the country as The Meritorious One, a title officially conferred on him by Venezuela's Congress. For fun he brought famed Juan Belmont from Spain to fight bulls, played much with his favorite toy: a barber chair specially imported from the U. S. So many citizens hurried out to Maracay to reaffirm their...