Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know what I have been seeking. Harvard is so huge and widespread and complex that no Freshman can stand in one place, and with his eyes upon one spot, say "This is Harvard." And I greatly doubt if anyone else can. What I want to find is something eminently symbolic which in my mind will mean Harvard, prue and simple...
Near Bend, Ore., a University of Oregon geologist found fossils of huge camels in Pleistocene strata...
Unlike this woman, Cantain Roald Amundsen fixed his glance unswervingly upon the stage, His lean face, revealed against his companion's shirtfront, looked like the sharp and stubborn profile of a huge Norway beaver...
...Story: "The French had formed a huge Cabinet of concentration. M. Briand was Prime Minister, but the Cabinet contained men of great age. M. Clemenceau, then approaching eighty years, was not included. It was said that when asked the reason for his exclusion, he had replied, Me suis trop jeune' (I am too young...
...shepherd David, a pale boy staring at a man in armor; David the warrior, huge-thewed and falcon-hearted, marching before the armies of Israel into battle; King David sitting in judgment over his people, stroking the black wires of his beard with fingers that have forgotten the harp; David, old and a prophet, remembering past enchantments and past ills-this cycle in the sounds of a limited wind-choir, a piano, harmonium, celesta, double-bass and percussion, was heard last week in Manhattan -Arthur Honegger's "Symphonic Psalm," performed by the Society of the Friends of Music...