Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Angeles. Slowly, cautiously, like the groundhog in February, the great Los Angeles thrust her monstrous grey stern-snout out of the hangar at Lakehurst, N. J. Sniffs of the wind augured well for several days aloft. The motors roared and rumbled, the huge celestial torpedo pushed up for her first extended trip since last July. Heading southeast, Captain George W. Steele Jr. guided her out over Barnegat Bay, then down to Atlantic City and to Cape May through bumpy air seas. Over Barnegat Lighthouse some internal wires had snapped; a waterline had burst, from one of the steam-condensers...
...reported in Georgia inspecting with a group of strangers certain textile mills. The natural inference was that he intended placing contracts for tire fabrics, and Akron folk knew that if he did, he would drive a sharp bargain advantageous to his company. At least he made a huge deal, which was consummated last week in Manhattan. The contract was between President Work and President Harry T. Dunn of the Fisk Rubber Co., on the one side, and R. E. Hightower and his son, W. H. Hightower, the Georgia textile people. It provided for $100,000,000 worth of cord tire...
...general manager, frequently protests against sending the entire company to Atlanta. From his standpoint, you can't blame him, for his job is to run the company, and if possible make financial ends meet. The Atlanta trip each year is a losing venture financially, and it is a huge undertaking, but I always tell him that as long as I live he'll have to include the Atlanta season in his plans. Why? Well, I fell in love with Atlanta twelve years ago, and it is a love to which I have been faithful. It is a good thing that...
...evident. When it rains, the sunken tracks become actual rivers of mud. Across the desert roads are practically negligible. The Gobi desert is itself an immense expanse of sand and rocks stretching over what seem almost illimitable distances. Out of the more or less even plain of the desert, huge, weather-worn cliffs that tower up perpendicularly as for instance the magnificent organ rocks which rise for hundreds of feet above the desert floor and have been fluted by the action of the elements until they resemble great organ tubes...
...honor of one whom they regarded as a martyr of prudery. They were sure that he would be convicted. When Judge Parmentier's decision reached them, the campus took on the electric glory that thrills it on days when the Harvard football eleven has won a match. The huge hall at the Union was packed to the doors, and though only 600 could sit down, some 1400 others stood among the tables, or craned through the windows. Professor Felix Frankfurter of the Law School introduced Martyr Mencken...