Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...built on a flimsy bridge over the same underground river which is causing so much trouble to the builders of McKinlock Hall. Since every year the spring freshets add to the instability of the edifice, the editors have not felt it worth while to pay off the huge mortgage on the building. This mortgage was foreclosed yesterday afternoon...
...last night that he would ask the holders of the mortgage to continue his lease, but would at the same time look about for a safer location with no river underneath. At that time he did not know that the building was to be sold over his head. A huge sign reading "For Sale" appeared on the Bow Street side of the turret late in the afternoon, and soon attracted a crowd...
...place a huge pork roast was the kingpin of the fare. What if it were not thoroughly done? Those Michigan boys are too excited to care. Many ate, tearing at the flesh, gulping it with oversweet coffee. At the game the Illinois and Michigan elevens lined up. Whistle. Plop! The kickoff. In ten minutes "Red" Grange made four touchdowns. The Michigan spectators felt sickish. More kickoffs. Touchdowns for this team, for that. Loud and long the cheers. Here and there someone on the Michigan stands grimaced. His stomach griped him. Pork is a heavy thing to eat, burdensome when...
...nation", continued the speaker, who has attained a high degree of prominence in Europe as a student of the modern drama particularly, "but rather a group of 65 million people striving for individualism. To bind this mass the German government acts as a huge vise. This lack of community spirit is due largely to the 27 political parties which flourish in Germany today and to the large number of religious creeds. The dominant note is so largely that of individualism that there are no social sciences taught in the schools and universities. The watchword of the German social life today...
...Locarno Pacts last week. Later he drove from the Palace of Buckingham to that of St. James's and held his first levee of the season. To St. James's came many an ambassador, came also Premier Stanley Baldwin, laced into a gold-buttoned coat, abashed beneath a huge military hat, fiddling speculatively with a sword...