Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Huge terminal markets under construction--Estimated saving to the people in food purchases of $150,000,000 a year...
...hours after the closing of the polls, returns began to trickle in. Early reports showed ex-Chancellor Marx, Republican candidate, in the lead; but as time wore on, Hindenburg grew stronger and stronger. Marx captured Berlin by a huge majority. At Nürnberg, Stuttgart, Cassel, Heidelberg, Marx scored slight victories over the Monarchists; but the Field Marshal came back strong in Munich, Stettin, Leipzig, Halle, "the reddest town in Germany," Frankfort, Coburg, home of deposed monarchs. Finally, in the early hours of the morning, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg was declared elected President of the German Republic. Returns...
...pictures drawn by imaginative architects of what New York will look like fifty years from now, with huge buildings and three or four street levels, have always appealed to an innate American love of size merely for its own sake. Mr. Clarence S. Stein, who is apparently unaffected by this booster spirit, writes in the current number of The Survey of some breakdowns in the superstructure of New York. "Inadequate housing facilities, inadequate water supplies, inadequate transportation", he writes," these are but the larger and more obvious ills that derive from congestion of population...
Like their colleagues overseas and on the same day, airship pilots of the U. S. Army Air Service had their troubles with a huge gas bag, in this case the TC-3, a nonrigid twin-motored airship of only 200,000 cu. ft., scarcely one-tenth the volume of the R-33. Sailing from Scott Field, III., the TC3 broke her rudder at Caseyville, Ill., soon after going aloft. For two hours, she drifted at the will of the wind, then negotiated a landing at Black Walnut, Mo., little the worse for wear...
...know," she said, "I really never have made the most of my opportunities. When Mr. Ames' award was made, a famous manufacturer offered me a huge sum of money to go about the country giving talks on his personality. Think of that...