Word: giant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wurdemann's third book revealed an attempt to cope with a major theme, relating in varied verse forms the narrative of seven brothers whose lives represented, as they plunged toward their respective dooms, the seven Capital Sins. Beginning with a prolog describing the death of the father-"This giant man, this grey old beak, disastrous Granite of God that lay upon them always"-that released them into the world, the poem recounts Jared's death from avarice, Abel's from gluttony, Jasper's from pride...
...surging over the seas four times a year, penning U. S. inhabitants between its eastern and western mountain ranges. When this cold corpse of a satellite has crept 50% closer, a menacing bulge will be sucked out of its earthward face by terrestrial attraction. It will grow to a giant disk covering one-twentieth of the sky, lighting the night with baleful splendor. The lunar mountains, four miles high, will crack and crumble. Earth will shudder, open tremendous crevasses. The rain of moon fragments, falling as meteorites heated by atmospheric friction, will make steaming cauldrons of the seas, a smoking...
...fourth man in the Crimson backfield will be George Hedblom, a little 158 pounder whose grand fighting has made him a defensive giant capable of stopping 200 pounds of football tonnage, steadily and consistently...
...local star cluster, past the local star galaxy (the Milky Way) to the limits of the known universe. Dr. Hubble's longest looks into space have disclosed star-swarms 500,000,000 light-years away, and this appears to be the limit of Mt. Wilson's giant telescope. Thus the observable universe is a sphere about a billion light-years across. What Dr. Hubble calls a "preliminary reconnaissance" shows that the sphere probably contains 100,000,000 nebulae composed of stars, the average nebula being about 20,000,000,000 times as heavy as the Sun and shedding...
...weakness of the present Republican management has been its disposition to shoot off all their fireworks now, instead of waiting for the campaign. That reminds me of the boy who gets so eager that he just has to buy a giant firecracker three days before the Fourth of July, and then on the night of the third he simply can't stand it any longer and gets up and fires...