Word: giant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Bowdoin College, beheld with his own marveling eyes 25 great scavengers grouped at their horrid feast. Reporting to the National Association of Audubon Societies last week that migrating as well as Maine eagles composed the group, Ornithologist Gross said: "The loud screams and powerful wing beats of these giant birds were an experience never to be forgotten...
Nevertheless, with the maternal support of France, even then seeking security, the awkward Russian giant was soon again admitted to the diplomatic drawing-rooms of Europe. The wounds of 1905 had not healed, nor were they over to heal, but the pallor of the collosus was easily forgotten at the sound of his booming voice. Even Mother France continually pumping her own financial blood into his arteries, was charmed and deceived by roars of rage and hunger. From Mongolia and Afghanistan and Bulgaria these cries came. Tomorrow at ten Professor Karpovitch will classify and interpret them in Harvard...
...Freed from the tyranny of a Senate minority (treaties now required only the joint consent of a majority of both Houses), successive Presidents had concluded sound trade and security pacts with the nations of the world. Vast stock purchases, pioneered by the oldtime RFC, had made the Government a giant holding company with agents sitting as partners on the boards of every major corporation, guiding the nation's economic life by a coherent, far-seeing plan. Each & every citizen was now secure against every economic threat but that of sickness...
...Puerto Carreno, Colombia, the chief of a hostile Indian tribe sent his braves prowling under the fuselage of a giant trimotored Ford transport plane to steal the "big bird's eggs," so that the chief could hatch planes of his own to fight the white...
...skirts playing croquet on a shaded lawn. One of the most prolific of artists, Homer sent back drawings from the front during the Civil War which made the reputation of Harper's Weekly. Every schoolboy knows him today for his vivid canvas, The Gulf Stream, in which a giant Negro is sprawled on the deck of a mastless catboat while sharks circle the derelict. Suave Socialite Edwin Austin Abbey used to have almost as much trouble with his models as Eakins. One of the most popular illustrators in the U. S., he was paid $200 and $300 apiece...