Word: giant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near Florence, Ala., when four men broke at night into L. E. Wilcoxson's store and reached into his show case, one was bitten by the two giant rattlesnakes L. E. Wilcoxson had on display...
...last week. With a hoot-toot, toot! the steamboat Cape Girardeau appeared, swung a wide circle on the muddy waters and churned its broad nose upstream against the slippery chocolate bank. Whereupon a brass band aboard the Cape Girardeau let go full blast. And the voice of a choking giant began to croak through amplifiers: "-Good roads-used to peddle milk in Kankakee-in his own ward he got 700 votes against but 25 for his distinguished opponents-your support for the Republican ticket-cross in the circle at the top -don't change doctors in the midst...
While Ouimet was squeezing into the semi-finals for the ninth time in his career by trimming Medalist Fischer with a 12-ft. putt on the last hole, another Bostonian, giant Jesse Guilford, was eliminating Chick Evans, title-holder in 1916 and 1920, 5 & 4. Ross Somerville defeated Boston's William O. Blaney 6 & 5 and Johnny Goodman, who unexpectedly whipped Bobby Jones in the first round at Pebble Beach in 1929, put out Maurice McCarthy...
...Europa is 49,746 tons, both average about 26 knots. Italy's new Conte di Savoia has not yet had her speed trials, but like the Rex she is expected to cruise at about 27 knots, in a pinch turn up 29 knots. She is equipped with three giant gyroscopes to minimize roll. But like any ship, she will pitch. The super-Ile de France, expected to maiden-voyage in 1934. will be the world's biggest and fastest liner. Her plans call for a displacement of over 75,000 tons, a speed sufficient to drive her from...
...forcibly impressing itself upon me, and I would therein describe men?even should that give them the semblance of monstrous creatures?as occupying in Time a place far more considerable than the so restricted one allotted them in space, a place, on the contrary, extending boundlessly since, giant-like, reaching far back into the years, they touch simultaneously epochs of their lives?with countless intervening days between?so widely separated from one another in Time...