Word: giant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Giant P. The Conservatives now dominating His Majesty's "National Government" have made splendid and honest use of their opportunity to take over as their specialty and to champion before the World the particular brand of pacifism with a giant P plus zealous support of the League of Nations (hitherto the forte of the British Labor Party) which recently proved their pulling power with British voters by winning 11,000,000 ballots in a nationwide straw vote (TIME, Sept. 2). Last week the Labor Party, in convention at Brighton, were so carried away by their loathing of Fascism...
...miles by plane, pack horse, pack dog, flat-bottomed boat, legwork. The party risked drowning in the Nahanni River. A storm almost blew their plane into Great Slave Lake. Mr. Goodwin was almost eaten by black flies, bulldog flies, midges and mosquitoes while from a blind he filmed giant, sharp-humped wood buffalo wallowing in the dust at a water-hole. Stampeding musk oxen almost ran down a guide. And bears definitely stole the meat the party had hung for safekeeping between trees. Trophies for the American Museum: three blue Stone Mountain sheep, 200 small mammals. The prize trophies, however...
Then came hard luck. Haley had already been lost through violating the Eligibility Rules. Tommy Bilodeau, who was expected to take his place, was on Doe Thorndike's injured list, where he has apparently remained up to the present time. In the Springfield game itself Don Jackson, a defensive giant and potentially very fine running and passing performer, was permanently lost by reason of a broken collar bone. Moseley and Lane were also injured. Lane is unquestionably out of this afternoon's affair; Moseley is doubtful...
This is the story of Benaiah, Valiant son of a valiant si-ah. Hero of a hundred fights, Killed two famous Moabites; Saw a lion in the pit, Went right down and slaughtered it. Killed a giant seven feet tall Whose back was like a city wall. Had a name among the three Mighty men of chivalry. Such is the story of Benaiah, Valiant son of a valiant...
...sized tempest which had caught her in the perilous Florida Straits. Night came down and the storm increased, sending waves clean over her bridge, blinding her officers with solid sheets of rain. At 8:12 p. m. the Dixie's bottom grated over something that felt like a giant washboard, stuck fast on a hidden reef...