Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first scene between Peithetaerus and Prometheus was skilfully done; Prometheus has stolen down from the realm of Zeus, and his attempts to hide himself from the latter's sight under a huge umbrella called out much laughter. In the second scene the embassy from Zeus appears, and here the haughty Poseidon, the gluttonous Herakles and the barbarian Triballos were well portrayed by the respective actors...
Saturday was given to excursions in charge of Dr. Gregory. The morning was spent in examining West Rock, where the party found splendid exposures of the intrusive contact of a huge lava sheet with the Triasaic sand-stones. In the afternoon the party, including Professors Williams, Beecher and Pearson of Yale, took the train to Meriden, passing the escarpment of the hanging hills on the way, and going on to the large quarries in the lava beds north of the city. From there the party went along the great fault line where the displacement measures about 2,000 feet...
...party when he must, the free government party when he dares. . . . For there be two Jinn, two slaves of the lamp, that serve the Republic. One, the nimbler and the more intelligent, is best employed in the care of its material interests, its bodily welfare. The other, a turbulent, huge, and mighty demon, guards with ferocious jealousy the two-fold liberty which is its soul...