Word: giante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...port of Antofagasta to enrich the Guggenheims. The atrocious destitution of the little cities of northern Chile. The cathedral at Arequipa, built of honey-colored volcanic stone, young and fresh throughout the centuries as the face of a nun. Arequipa, where beggars ride horseback. La Paz, where giant mushrooms are split with an axe, used for fuel. Lake Titicaca, world's highest, where one suffers from seasickness and mountain sickness at the same time. Lima, founded on the Epiphany and shaped like a king cake. The not quite homicidal climate of the Canal Zone...
...month ago Pitcher Carl Hubbell, lean left-hander of the New York Giants, pitched an 18-inning game against the St. Louis Cardinals which the Giants won. 1 to 0. That was enough to make 1933 a memorable season for Pitcher Hubbell but he was not satisfied. Last week, in the fourth inning of a game between Boston and the Giants, he had a chance to break the National League record of 44 consecutive scoreless innings, made by Pitcher Ed Reulbach of the Chicago Cubs in 1908. The first batter hit a fly. Next man up was Wally Berger...
Though he was only five feet tall, Japanese have long called Marshal Muto their "Silent Giant," thus paying homage to his clam-like taciturnity and titanic will. In Changchun he ruled, as General Hishikari will rule, with the titles of Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Army in Manchukuo and Tokumei Zenken Taishi ("The Emperor's Private Ambassador...
...governor of Oklahoma. As a delegate to the constitutional convention, as a governor of the State and as one of its delegates to four national conventions, as the publisher of a great newspaper and as a city, community and State builder, Governor Haskell's name towers like a giant rock rises in gigantic majesty which carries a sense of security in matters clear to the heart of every patriot...
...spot designated by a tablet in the highway, stood the giant elm beneath which Washington took command of the Continental Army on July 3, 1775. The elm collapsed...