Word: giante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale bandleader dropped his baton. The Harvard bass drum tipped over at a crucial moment. Incongruous in the smart Bowl crowd were two members of a traveling circus, a giant and a midget in a tall silk hat. In the interval after the third period, a spectator ran the length of the field, threw his hat over the Harvard goal posts, snickered at the crowd...
...onetime Stanford Coach who began coaching at Temple last year: "I know of no team in the East or South that will have a clearer right to make the trip [to Pasadena] and I hope if we go to the Rose Bowl, we meet Stanford." Unbeaten Temple, with a giant sophomore back named Dave Smukler who passed, kicked and ran like an All-American, gave point to his boast, 22-to-0, against Villanova...
...were sold. It stirred the U. S. and Europe. It was the story of a 19th Century man who went to sleep and woke up in the year 2000 and was shown what the world was like then. This marvelous book described radio and television. It told of giant umbrellas to spread over whole cities to keep off rain and snow. But its chief interest was that it told how poverty had been abolished, how private industry had been taken over by a state syndicate, how everybody worked to produce plenty of goods for everybody else. Bellamy also...
...looking for the bicycle department," he explained later, "I ran smack into the giant statue of a man with a smirk, half undressed. The inscription said he was G. Washington...
...years ago. Much of this time was spent cooling, shrinking, solidifying: more than half of it passed before evidence of the first microscopic life was left in the rocks. Five hundred million years ago sponges, jellyfish and worms appeared; fishes 400,000,000 years ago; giant reptiles 150,000,000 years ago. Well within the last 100,000,000 years birds and mammals appeared, and within the last million, man. The dates. Sir James admits, are conjectural but the sequence...