Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tampa and the Modoc take turns patrolling the danger area, where the warm Gulf currents meet the Arctic flows at the "cold wall." Their duties are to spot the huge chunks of ice by their own lookouts or from the wire-lessed reports of other ships, to destroy such bergs by explosives if possible, otherwise to keep them ever in sight, reporting twice a day their whereabouts to ships which might be struck and to the U. S. hydrographic office at Washington. Fogs and other weather conditions too are radioed, and on this news the weather department partly bases...
...born at Twickenham, England, haunt of Poet Alexander Pope. For decades he squandered huge sums extracted from various titled persons or realized from the sale of his estates. He attempted to enlist in the French army during the War but was refused. Under French law "the privilege of defending the Republic is denied to the sons of families that have reigned over France...
...share buyers; and 2) there was a piling up of inventories. They have accumulated despite the opening of the spring seasons. Several automotive makers have already quietly cut production. In this last field the easy credit terms of last year may in part be blamed. This year a huge accumulation of used cars competes with the sale of new. More cheerful is the steel situation, with production near 96% of capacity...
...highly important manufacturers of electrical equipment are the General Electric Co. and the Western Electric Co.† Both apply the far-reaching scientific discoveries relative to electricity to practical apparatus. Both have huge laboratories where many new electrical facts have been revealed, where many new applications have been devised. In fact General Electric has its own private, fully staffed university at Nela Park, Cleveland. For both firms the chief purpose is to sell electrical equipment. Western Electric specializes in the telephonic field. General Electric covers practically all the others. Last week the 1925 profits of both these companies were reported...
Over an operating table in Manhattan stood a huge old man. His surgeon's gown hung straight from broad shoulders. Its sleeves ended in neat, starched bands about his wrists, just above monstrously big and bony hands, hands that opened, closed with sinuous, powerful contractions, extensions. The surgeon was about to go to work...