Word: giante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Union, according to the World Almanac for 1938, the assessed valuation on real property was less than one billion dollars....In each of 16 States the total valuation of all property subject to general property tax was less than one billion dollars....The assets of each of those giant corporations are subject to authoritarian control by the corporate managers while the control a State exercises over the property within its boundaries is rigidly limited....Each of these corporations has an influence that is national and even international in its scope....They are economic states...
Kirkland was dropped out of the House football lead by a giant-killing crowd of basketball players from Adams who slew the Deacons 7-6 by putting on the finest aerial attack ever seen in intra-mural football. The once-beaten, once tied 'Coasters completed pass after pass against a helpless Kirkland defense. Another surprise result, dimmed by the Deacon upset, was Lowell's last-ditch win over Eliot...
...good to have a giant's strength," Neville Chamberlain keynoted several weeks before the Czechoslovak Crisis arose: "It is tyrannous...
...Hoffman was willing to try anything. At Washington County Hospital Dr. Fleming removed the scarred cornea from Hoffman's right eye, straightened out the lens and iris as best he could. No human eyes were available, so he removed the cornea from the eye of a white giant rabbit and stitched it over Hoffman's iris. Last week Hoffman declared that he could see light, and when a nurse moved her fingers before his eyes at unannounced intervals Hoffman "called her hand...
Laze Symmes is a giant, hard-driving Yankee, who punches his Portygee workers in the nose, terrorizes even the town banker. But when the hero, a skinny, down-&-out college graduate, goes to work in the factory, terrible Symmes has no chance. Scrawny Keith Bain simply parries his bullying with cool, ironical sass. When Symmes hesitates and fumes about giving Bain five cents more an hour, the puny David says: "Come on, Symmes, make up your mind. . . ." This defiance works so well, in fact, that Symmes invites him to board at his home...