Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yorkers smiled indulgently at this declaration; they knew they had a horse worth a dozen Bubbling Overs; a horse that won the Hopeful and the Futurity last year; a small-hooved, huge-thewed bay colt by Sun Briar out of Cleopatra, who arrived in Louisville in a private car padded with silver canvas. They mentioned the morning that this horse had taken his first workout in the chill dews of seven o'clock- a morning when the trainer had stood at the rail, frantically signaling Watson the exercise boy, to slow down, while the split-second gentry compared watches...
...articles in the current issue of The Nation concern themselves with the question of higher education. Glenn Frank discusses the "Revolt Against Education" and suggests a method by which the colleges may more adequately effect some progress against the huge flood of learning which is now engulfing them. Professor Mussey of Wellesley has another and more personal suggestion. Both are, each in his own way, attempting to outline one particular flaw in the present college system. And both, therefore, are merely polishing facets of a large and imposing, many faceted jewel. Yet even such isolated endeavors are in their fashion...
...With proper organization, a few suggestions for which will be indicated below, the collection of the Budget should not require the work of a very great number of men. It would be carried out with much greater efficiency by a small body of actively interested men than by a huge committee of men which it would be difficult to direct. The restricted size of this committee will add to the honor involved in appointment...
...chose in each instance, to illustrate the surface of the human being. I did not propose to go deeply into the heart, as it is called-that organ, which is so frequently maligned, did not interest me." In this book Author Wilde also describes his entrance to London, "this huge heap of Philistinism," as a young man: "I felt like a goldfish who was choked from devouring too much bread. ... It seemed a foolish thing to go on living in such a world...
...results of this expedition include a large addition to the huge collection of rubbings of Chinese stone inscriptions already possessed by the Fogg Museum, and photographic records of a series of paintings which are likely to prove to great interest as the work of the little known list Hsi Hsia dynasty which came to an end in the destructive times of Ghengis Khan Professor Paul Pelliot of the College de France, who visited Harvard in March to lecture at the Fogg Museum on recent discoveries in Chinese Archaeology is one-of three living scholars who can discipher this Hsi Hsia...