Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into the city treasury for full payment. Warren's present beggary is the catastrophe to overspending which U. S. municipalities do not seem capable of resisting. Last year local governments assessed taxes of $5,100,000,000, an increase of 76% over those of 1919. But even this huge sum (the highest Federal taxes ever levied for a single year were $5,069,000,000 in 1919) was insufficient. Local disbursements exceeded receipts by $2,300,000,000. To get this money, state and municipal bonds were issued for $1,399,637,992 last year...
...huge crowd* milled about in seeming indifference. Whiffs of smoke ascended from many pipes. Occasional sporadic laughter was heard as jokes were loosed. Felix Dzerzhinsky, respected, feared, was never popular...
...ideal citizen," reported the New York Times correspondent, diplomatically introducing Jumbo's rare philosophy and some of his "twinkling humor." Huge chested, hard as nails physically, Jumbo is fond of hunting, fishing, boxing. "Liquor isn't made to drink," he has said. "It's made to sell." No one has ever seen him down a glass of intoxicant. In the Jungle, Jumbo has taught the survival of the fittest. "If a man walks down the street with $100 in his pocket and some one knocks him over the head and takes it, that's his fault...
...herds, Chinese temples, the home life of the Paramecium, or of "Making Rubber in Ohio," seems excellent. The Eastman Kodak Co. is one of the largest corporations in the U. S. The National Education Association has some 161,000 members. And added to these agencies will be the huge publicity corps of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc., Will H. Hays, president...
...mediacy had created the comforts and thereby had induced the crowding of huge modern cities. This was essential, he once said, "to attain a high degree of human culture. But all the advantages of the city will soon be possible on the farm without having to put up with city life. . . . Heretofore we have been compelling electricity to take us to the city. Hereafter we shall simply touch a button and have it take the city out to us." He was the applier of electricity, but, when asked what it was, he said: "I can't tell...