Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cabinet crisis continued, Premier Theunis retaining power ad interim; but the King was hourly expected to call upon a prominent Catholic to form a Socialist-Catholic coalition which, if possible, would command the huge majority of 127 in the Chamber and 107 in the Senate...
...Chaldees, the joint British Museum-University of Pennsylvania expedition continued to exhume the architectural works of Nebuchadnezzar, his ancestors and his grandson. The major find was a limestone slab, 5 by 15 ft., decorated with a portrait and biographic scenes of King Ur-Engur, builder of the huge ziggurat of Ur or Moon God's tower. The date of the slab was put at 2300 B. C., its historic importance being equaled only by its value as a specimen of Sumerian...
...christening party proceeded to lunch with the shipbuilders, where speeches were made telling how the U. S. S. Saratoga could cross the Atlantic in four days, could supply electric current for a huge city, cost $45,000,000, will carry 72 planes, is an unprecedented monster (TIME...
...power of most U. S. listed companies for 1925; and that the subsequent fall in prices represents an adjustment from over-optimistic hopes to saner and more realistic estimates. But the bulls still urge, and with equal force, the ease in money. The U. S. is piling up steadily huge amounts of capital which virtually seek investment. Last year, much of it flowed into foreign loans, and much into home securities, driving up their price rapidly in the Stock Exchanges. Although the latter movement has apparently halted, for the time being at least, the public still clamors for new securities...
...Pedro, passengers on the liner Moerdyk beheld a duel between a huge octopus and a man-eating shark. For nearly an hour, the two writhed together, the shark snapping, plunging, the octopus limaceously twining. At length the octopus thrust a tentacle down the throat of the maneater, at which the latter, vomiting buckets of entrails, expired...