Word: giant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Citizens of Caracas do not see much of their President. He dislikes public functions, spends as much of his time as possible at Maracay, 77 miles away, where, beside a lake on his great model farm, he sits in a rocking chair under a giant rubber tree and holds court. But Caracas saw him last week, when in full uniform General Juan Vicente Gomez celebrated the 25th anniversary of his seizure of the government. Ceremonies were simple. He stalked to the Casa Amarilla, the presi dential palace where he first took office, then through lines of blue-clad soldiers...
...ripped through and around Army's line, did not stop until he had rammed over Army's goal. Quarterback Bonar kicked the extra point. A few minutes later Lukats sent a prodigious kick 70 yd. to Army's 8-yd. line where Notre Dame's giant Tackle "Moose" Krause downed it. In Buckler's place, a yearling named Simons dropped back to punt. He juggled the ball, and in that moment Notre Dame's Left End Wayne Millner tore through, blocked the kick, fell on the ball for a touchdown...
...strode into the cavernous metal hangar in which was no dirigible but M. I. T.'s giant electrostatic generator (TIME, March 7, 1932). There they joined newsmen and M. I. T. engineers and miscellaneous scientists. In the gloom loomed the generator- two gleaming 15-ft. hollow aluminum balls, each atop a 25-ft. column of textolite, each column mounted on a massive four-wheel truck. The two trucks were on a single track which ran the length of the hangar and beyond. Small manholes opened into both aluminum balls which were rigged up inside as compact laboratories...
...Berlin nearly every kiosk blossomed with a poster of Der Marschall und der Gefreite. Onetime Gefreite (lance-corporal) Adolf Hitler was shown in Nazi uniform, Feldmarschall von Hindenburg in the sack suit of a President. Together they appealed to all Germany in giant capitals to KAMPFEN MIT UNS FUR FRIEDEN UND GLEICHBERECHTIGUNG! ("Battle with us for peace and equality!"). The great plebiscite decreed by Chancellor Hitler to vindicate his withdrawal of Germany from the Disarmament Conference and resignation from the League of Nations (TIME, Oct. 23 et seq.) was on. Adolf Hitler, born an Austrian, was about to make good...
...position of holding the balance of power. The bloc of votes which have meant victory in the past are now split, how closely no one knows. The Innes-Nichols-Goulston group is an excellent match for the Curley-Coakley-Foley combine. Parkman has the record of being a political giant-killer and his experience as a dock foreman combined with political astuteness make him a vote-getter among the working classes. Mansfield points justifiably with pride to his 90-odd thousand votes against Curley last election. Last minute dopesters say Foley's loss of the city employee vote to Nichols...