Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disaster have not yet been published. Can their report explain why the Government did not place the magazines under ground, where danger would have been minimized? Can they discount the contention of Professor Pupin of Columbia University, as given by Hearst-Editor Brisbane, that sheet copper roofings connected by huge copper bands directly with wet earth would have frustrated even this "act of God?" The system of lightning rod protectors at Lake Denmark is obviously inefficient. The Government controls immense voltages of electricity at Niagara Falls; why have not engineers sought a method to control electrical attacks on the concentrated...
...railroad rumbled smoothly through the night over the plains of Texas. A proud train crew was in charge; proud because back in one of the Pullmans slept a handsome, motherly middle-aged woman, no less a personage than Mrs. Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson, Governess of the whole huge state...
...opened headquarters in Chicago to sift charges that three millions were flung back and forth by the supporters of Frank L. Smith and Senator William B. McKinley in last month's primary. The star witness will be a pompous little man whose brain seems to live on huge financial figures, while his stolid personality presides over the gas works, electric dynamos, elevated railways and civic opera, that all contribute to make Chicago its bigger and better self. He is Samuel Insull, and it is charged that he either knuckled to or abetted the winning Smith campaign to the tune...
Fiat,* largest automobile company in Europe and largest Italian industrial concern, has long poured over the Continent its gleaming metal spawn, big Fiats and little Fiats, trim town cars with square lights and snub noses, Baby Fiats that are playthings for South American debutantes, and cars like the huge grey road lizards in which Il Duce speeds from camp to campagna. The Fiat company's ten factories make also tractors, forgings, castings, Diesel engines, electricity; employ 32,000 men; sold 40,000 cars last year; reached gross sales of $50,000,000 and net profits of almost...
...Diegel, until he took a six on the short sixteenth, had seemed a sure winner. Hagen -"Third Round" Hagen-had thundered around, burning up the course, 4, 4, 3, 2, 4, with four bad holes to spoil his chances at the end. "Wild Bill" Mehlhorn, he of the huge feet and iron wrist, had undone his hope only by an overbold attempt to gobble a long putt on the last green. The 294 was still best; Turnesa waited...