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Word: giant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soldiers Field yesterday. Brix took a slight workout, putting the iron ball some 50 feet while Harvard weight men watched his form with interest. G. W. Kuehn '32 received an hour's special instruction from Comstock and the rugged Californian. Alfred Kidder '33 and M. J. Finlayson '32, giant Crimson weight throwers were watched with interest by the visitors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEIGHT CHAMPION EXHIBITS ABILITY AT SOLDIERS FIELD | 2/16/1932 | See Source »

...their engaging presence to recent films, Frankenstein's monster is the most nearly terrifying. More subtle than Mr. Hyde of the staring eyes and grinning teeth, is this monster whom a mad scientist has pieced together out of the parts of corpses. He comes out of the dark a giant, stumbling, inarticulate shape, with square skull, inhuman eyelids, and the filmed eyes of one too long dead. You may see the raised suture at the wrists, where the mismatched hands are grafted to the arms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: >The Crimson Playgoer | 2/12/1932 | See Source »

...Vagabond deals with the hearts of men from which the curtain of convention has been drawn aside. Slang and swearing, as they appear to a purist, should be crystallized emotional expressions. Regarded as such, the Vagabond can only join with his distinguished colleague and lament the passing of the giant oaths...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 1/21/1932 | See Source »

...great, rusty T-shaped giant. The top of the T ran from Philadelphia to Washington. The stem split, one line reaching out to Chicago, the other ending just over the Mississippi River at St. Louis. Corporate headquarters were at the top of the stem, in Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Work, Wages & Willard | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

...followed a tea dance and a dinner at the Indian Hall Club, but, inasmuch as the Clubs has to make an 11.30 o'clock train out of Chicago, a hurried departure was made after the last number. Before the audience was aware that the concert had terminated, a giant two-decked bus, escorted by a Winnetka police corps, was speeding toward Chicago...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Middle West Welcomes Harvard Instrumentalists With Gay Series of Entertainments--Gold Coast On Air At Detroit | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

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