Word: giant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oldest of the Old Dealers, this tall husky 61-year-old Senator-elect was not an ardent New Dealer. During the campaign he promised: "I will support President Roosevelt-in every proper manner." Father of ten children, Democrat Donahey makes no pretense at being an intellectual giant or a political wizard. As Ohio's Governor, he used to employ a Columbus newshawk to write his speeches and State papers, used to staff the Executive Mansion with servants selected from "trusties" at the State prison...
...grandfather. Until Jan. 21 brings the excitement of his return, guest conductors must lead the Philharmonic. The one to begin the season last week was Otto Klemperer, the 6-ft. 4-in. German who, even though he used no podium, towered over the Orchestra like a dark fierce-eyed giant...
...Japan. Less idyllic was Col. Rickenbacker's picture of engines of Death in the Next War: "Airplanes . . . will pick up fast tanks and drop them over enemy lines without landing. Planes will fire small cannon from the air, and whole armies will be moved in huge transports. Giant lenses will be taken to great altitudes and focused on the sun's rays so that cities will be burnt...
Ewing Y. Mitchell, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, who proposed that the Federal Government spend $17,000,000 on two giant dirigibles for a regularly scheduled round-the-world passenger service...
...years ago Heitz of Germany showed that the chromosomes in the fruit fly's salivary glands were greatly enlarged-70 times bigger than the germ-plasm chromosomes. Last year Dr. Theophilus Shickel Painter of University of Texas found cross bands on the giant chromosomes which he thought might have something to do with gene locality. Then affable, bushy-haired Dr. Bridges refined his photomicrographic technique to such a point that the chromosomes appeared as twisted strings of flat, irregular beads, and the cross bands were seen to be mosaics of infinitesimal cylinder ends. Dr. Bridges did not identify either...