Word: giant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were, however, two selections on the all-star team last week about which no baseball addict was likely to complain. Although both leagues this season are using a uniform lively ball, it has so far been a pitcher's year. Carl Hubbell of the Giants and Vernon Gomez of the Yankees are indisputably the best pitchers in their leagues. If every seat in the Polo Grounds is sold next week it will be because the crowd wants to see them pitch against each other, as they may do in the next World Series. Giant Hubbell, long lean left...
...first into their platters. Decks tilted crazily while frightened Germans ran screaming from rail to rail. In a few minutes the Dresden's first S. O. S. was picked up by the coastal steamers King Harald and Crown Princess Martha, and the French navy despatch boat Ardent. The giant British battleship Rodney, visiting Stavanger, also heard the call but was told that no further assistance was necessary...
...Garden of Eden, unrecognized by Science, which offers instead a "Lemurian world ... a scene wherein the tortured larva of the human being . . . endured the nightmare of fear and lust which made up his life, in desperate conflict with scaly mountains of flesh in the shape of flying lizards and giant newts." Says Author Mann: Science leads here into a blind alley; this was not the beginning. "We have sounded the well of time to its depths, and not yet reached our goal: the history of man is older than the material world which is the work of his will, older...
...mouster skull and jaws of a new type of triple-horned dinesaur, a giant four-legged and dragon-tailed reptile which grated in the lewlands of castern Wyeming more than sixty millien years ago, will be placed on exhibit at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard this week. The skull is 5 feet long and 4 1-2 feet wide, and was mounted in life on a dinosaur about eighteen feet long and ten feet high...
...daybreak the White Star liner Olympic, 23-year-old sister ship of the Titanic, picked up faintly the signal of No. 117, set a course for it. Almost seven hours later a horrified shout burst from a lookout. Bells jangled, the four giant screws threshed madly in reverse, seamen rushed to man lifeboats. Carried helplessly forward by its own momentum, the 46,000-ton liner crunched into the little lightship, cut it in two. Four of the lightship's crew of eleven were never found, and three died after being picked up by the Olympic's lifeboats...