Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then, with any jingoistic faith in huge national armaments but with a been realization that peace like the city of Romulus and Remus cannot be built in a day one is perpetually urged by the conditions of his age to wonder how best and with the least friction there can be maintained as a part of American education sufficient interest in and knowledge of modern warfare as to insure national integrity in whatsoever arises...
...stood ranked along the fairways had reason to envy the blown gulls. Those on the ground could see very little; they knew even less about the progress of the matches than the wet sharpers at Epsom Downs knew about the Derby. Lucky were those who stood around the huge 13th green (the biggest golf green in the world) when Watts Gunn and Bobby Jones were playing Cyril Tolley and A. Jamieson Jr. On that green, young Gunn holed a putt that measured 44 feet. Another important green in the foursome play was the second, where Holderness and Wethered made...
...with that of Thomas F. Logan Inc. (Manhattan) to form the firm of Lord & Thomas and Logan. It was a wedding of one of the oldest members of the Fifth Estate with one of the youngest; of the popularizer of many famed household commodities with the interpreter of many huge public service and transportation corporations. It was the formation of one of the largest advertising concerns in the world* and the coalition of two perfect representatives of human types for which this part of the 20th Century is "destined to be celebrated...
...Polack's eyes popped at a huge bell, four stories high. He wondered why anyone should want a bell that big. He strolled past a tinselly lagoon and came to five great exhibition halls, not one of which was complete and all of which were sparsely dotted with exhibits. He met some mustachioed Slavic friends who told him of a mysterious Treasure Island, of a quaint restoration of an 18th Century street, to the east of which towered a shining Oriental building, essence of India. He walked wonderingly on, viewed fireworks, stalwart live stock, grassless lawns, a stadium...
...were written, what they mean. If there is a mite of unction spread through Author Rogers' pages, it is not obtrusive nor out of place in a book that is bound to be laid warmly and strongly to the hearts of many people?a book, by the way, from huge presses that roar today on a Long Island plain Walt must often have crossed, meditating...