Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through the booths the public wandered, goggling and prying, shyly stroking, timidly querying about improved sugar filters, acid-proof sewer ware, glass-enameled steel goods ("No, madam," said the guardian of a huge sea-blue bowl of this material, "we did not make the goldfish"), monstrous cauldrons and crushers and carborundum refractories that industrial chemists use in their vast necromancies. A glum coterie stood before ranged vials of "industrial alcohols." Twin spirals of galvanized iron whirled at different speeds in glassed boxes, proving to the eye how much less hot air is lost from heat pipes when they are properly...
Only the adept passing of Jake Slagle, Princeton halfback, sent against Amherst after a scoreless first half, prevailed to beat off the thrusts of Drew, huge Amherst Negro. Score: Princeton 20, Amherst...
...lagoon 240 feet wide filled by water from the Great South Bay, canals flowing under pile-set villas, a fleet of gondolas imported from Venice, a huge swimming pool-these were the particulars of a Long Island real estate scheme announced last week by the Meister Builders, Inc. The site has been chosen, a 365 acre tract at Lyndhurst and Copiaque...
...levers. A maze of bright wires from the levers ran up into the bell tower, where hung a newly installed carillon, gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr. The carilloneur, Anton Breese, once assistant in the Cathedral of Antwerp, pushed a lever. The 9-ton bass bell sent its huge note jarring down the street like a slow blackbird. He pushed another, and the tenor bell, which weighs no more than an ordinary country dinner-clapper, spoke clear and high...
Creators of comic strips have done much with the Sunday Night idea; what could be better material? Papa in his stocking feet; Mama in a temper; horrible noises rising around from huge-mouthed canary birds, thrown vases, dying pet; "Awk," "Tweet-Tweet," "Glub-Glub," "Plunk," "Zowie...