Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this case, a public service corporation, in the hands of a small group of un-responsible if not irresponsible directors. When this objectionable feature has been removed, provided the promoters are willing to comply with the new economic spirit, then the Commission will be able to tuck the huge consolidation away among the "good trusts" and hid it a successful career...
...concocted a chemical he calls "thermit," nonexplosive, non-inflammable, rendered dangerous only by contact with ice, when it develops intense heat in a few seconds. The plan is to apply "thermit" to Greenland's west coast glaciers, "burn them up" before they break off in the huge chunks so dangerous to Atlantic shipping. Floating bergs will also be attacked, the scientists rowing alongside, planting a heat mine with time fuse, rowing away to observe results...
...Night Thoughts" of Edward Young have been commonly held to be among the classics of the romantic school. The romantic quality of the poems is enhanced by the fact that they are said to have been written largely to compensate for huge losses sustained by the poet in the South Sea Bubble. Young will be the subject of Professor Elton's lecture in English 8 this morning at 9 o'clock in Harvard 6. English 8 is one of the courses which should be marked with two circles, like the fence posts in front of houses, as a sign that...
Last week was a sort of contraceptive week against the creation of huge mergers. The Government took steps to prevent the formation of two different food-products combines. A third food proposition fell through. On the other hand, certain amalgamations in other lines continued to take definite shape...
Wild cheering ensued. An actor in horn-rimmed glasses and huge trousers, "an American," rushed upon the stage from the audience and hinted that there might be still other ways in which "the honest girls of France" could liquidate the national debt. Mlle. Parisys slapped him in the face, amid pandemonium...