Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grain Marketing Co. was favored by a huge rise in wheat prices during its incumbency. Yet it failed to remove speculation from grain trading, as some had claimed it would, and also failed to prove any very profitable enterprise from a commercial standpoint. The only value in the experiment of letting farmer-representatives try their hand at running the terminal elevator business, apparently, has been to prove to them that it is not quite so simple as they had thought. Now, perhaps, individual companies in this field will be less hampered than formerly by legislation passed in the supposed interests...
...launch one of the destroyer's boats, but an ambulance boat was sent from the Relief and the sick man lowered into it. Aboard the Relief, he was operated on and reported recovering. On the green before the Pago Pago School, Chief Tupelos, barefooted and dressed in a huge brown helmet, batwing collar, four-in-hand tie, brown pongee coat and a cigar in his mouth, led 500 droning singers and nimble dancers for a sava (song and dance contest) for the amusement of the fleet. Despite his 250 Ibs., the chief danced most gracefully. In a brilliant, colorful...
...Nassau. In front of the huge, garish Nassau Country Club at Glen Cove, L. I., William T. Tilden II played against a protégé of his, slender A. H. Chapin Jr., for the Nassau Challenge Cup. Protégé Chapin took four games in the first set. Then Tilden, remembering that youth will be served, began to serve cannonballs, to cut, chop, drive, until many thought that Chapin would cripple himself in his wild nourishes at mocking tennis balls. Tilden won the next 15 games, the match...
...half acre "estate," with 400 feet of frontage on the bay. It is a great colonial pile, about 20 years old, built by the late Frederick E. Smith of Dayton, and now owned by his children. It numbers 28 rooms, including eleven master bedrooms, a huge reception room, a dining room, sun-parlor, music room and six servants' bedrooms. Across the entire rear of the house, facing the bay, are porches. A lawn slopes down to the water. The view includes Egg Rock, recently converted by the Massachusetts legislature into the Henry Cabot Lodge Memorial Bird Sanctuary, and across...
Robert Ridgway: A mighty engineer who controls the transit of a huge metropolis, and has built tunnel and aqueduct under deep rivers...