Word: giante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hunter, ex-Dartmouth and Olympic skier, is shown as he negotiated Dick Durrance's giant slatom on Mount Washington. Hunter, who was a member of last year's Dartmouth team which swept all events in the Sun Valley invitation tournament, won in the amateur division of the event. He is now studying in the Graduate School of Design. Hunter's allegiance will be divided when the Crimson ski team participates in the annual Dartmouth Winter Carnival on February...
Charlie Babb got this idea for a flying freight car from the demands of Latin-American customers serving mines, lumber camps and industries in localities accessible only by air. Most of these use giant Curtiss Condors rebuilt as cargo ships. Now busy refitting six Condors to carry mahogany logs out of Yucatan's wilds, Babb hit on the idea of a unique Babb Special. It will have a wing span of 100 feet, twin motors and a cruising speed of 135 m.p.h. Its cargo space will be 35 feet long, 8½ feet wide, 9 feet deep. Through...
...Wart also encounters a witch, a giant who apparently represents 20th-century totalitarianism, and Robin Hood, whose real name, according to White, was Robin Wood. (The W slurred off, and recent highbrow scholars, thinking 'ood a Cockney abbreviation, added H.) After all his adventures the Wart still has strength enough to pull the legendary magic sword out of the anvil, win the right to be King Arthur...
From Paris to the Pyrenees last week Frenchmen were reading fantastic accounts of a troupe of giant "rugbymen américains" who were invading the provinces of France, "dressed in gold helmets like Roman emperors" and leaping at one another "like fighting cocks." More than 25,000 curious Parisians had watched them last fortnight in the Parc des Princes. Gendarmes were called out to handle 2,000 people who tried to crash the gate. "The giants kneeled down and tried to frighten one another with grimaces, then rushed headlong at one another. . . . Legs and arms got so mixed that...
...Largest of living invertebrates are the giant squids. In the early 19th Century a sea captain brought on board his ship fragments of such a giant which showed it to have been 50 ft. long, not including the ten arms. Scars of combat with giant squids have been found on the hides of whales. Largest of known insects, extinct for 170,000,000 years, had a wingspread of 2 ft. 6 in. Largest of known arthropods was Pterygotus, 9 ft. long, which faintly resembled a lobster and roamed on the Silurian sea bottoms of 350,000,000 years...