Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...later than Aug. 1 next. On that date, as M. Poin-caré had incessantly reminded the Chamber, there would fall due the debt of $400,000,000 owed by France for War stocks purchased from the U. S. after the Armistice. The only way to escape paying this huge sum now and in cash would be to ratify the general debt settlement, one clause of which virtually grants France a moratorium on what she owes for War stocks. Logically the Government's position was unassailable-either ratify or pay at once "through the nose." But to Propagandist Franklin...
...decade or so ago, Manhattan's Hippodrome was famed for monster, lustrous theatricals. Visitors swarmed to see such sights as Bandman Sousa, Skater Charlotte, Diver Annette Kellerman, Buffoon Nat Willis and whole menageries of animals in congress on one huge stage. Behind the scenes was Showman R. H. Burnside, purveyor of size rather than taste...
...time. Where once it was something of a disgrace for a pitcher to be batted out of the box, it is now a matter for comment when a pitcher lasts the full nine innings. "Best" pitcher of the year has been Robert Moses Grove of the Philadelphia Americans. A huge young man, Pitcher Grove propels the ball at such speed that few batters are able to time it correctly, and no matter how "lively" a ball may be it will travel no distance when the batter misses it. The Grove record up to last week...
...many a Clark student he is only a tradition. They call him the moon man, in the inaccurate belief that he is trying to reach the moon with his missiles. Last week, Tradition Goddard detonated very loudly. From a 40-ft. steel tower he fired his latest rocket, a huge steel cylinder 9 ft. long by 2½ ft. diameter. A new propellant sent it whizzing from the ground. It rose straight up about a quarter-mile. There the fuel seemed to ignite all at once, instead of in a stream, as planned. The roar sent Worcester ambulances and police...
Chief witness at the meeting was Packard's Alvan Macauley. Cool, self-possessed, quiet, sure of his facts & figures, he read from a typewritten manuscript. To what he said few exceptions were taken. First he talked of U. S. Motors, the whole huge industry. More than 4,000,000 U. S. inhabitants derive an automotive livelihood. The industry consumes 18% of U. S. steel production, 85% of rubber, 74% of plate glass, 60% of leather upholstery, 18% of hardwood lumber, 27% of aluminum, 14% of copper. Last year it was third largest user of railroad equipment, shipped nearly one million...