Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...umpire glanced to the right where a huge man in the uniform of a General of the Polish army stood bareheaded in the rain...
After some hesitancy, Secretary Mellon undertook a "common sense" defense of everyone's expenses. Wages of political workers had risen like other wages, he said. It had cost $42,000 merely to mail one letter to every registered Pennsylvania voter. Huge advertisements had been thought necessary to combat the appetizing Vare beer cry. Political moneys spent in Pennsylvania were "as legitimate as money given to a church." If there was a culprit it was no man but the direct primary itself...
...Huge circles were marked off on the fairways where the course's architect had calculated that tee-shots should come to rest. They were concentric circles, the smallest, inner one yielding nine points to the player driving his ball within it; the next largest, eight points; a third, seven points. On the par-5 holes there were systems of circles for second-shots to reach. At the greens, the cup was the bull's-eye and there was a special bonus for holing shots from off the putting surface...
Entrance Limitations. The crush at U. S. college gates had continued until even huge Harvard felt obliged to announce a policy of restricting her freshman classes (TIME, April...
...profess an aversion for "the an-achronistic chariot of war" and disclaim "any jingoistic faith in huge national armaments"; then you propose to abolish these evils by increasing the number who can drive the anachronistic chariot!. You admire the prospective course for the "idental discipline" it will afford, yet how long has the CRIMSON stood for discipline of the absolute, goose-step variety in any field...