Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last month, the Messrs. Simon and Schuster presented their crossword* goose with a new nesting lure, the monthly Crossword Puzzle Magazine. They sat back awaiting more of the golden deposits that had established them in the publishing business. Crossword quips, crossword portraits, crossword biographies and several huge crossword puzzles filled the magazine's pages...
Since the book value of the company is approximately $90,000,000, it is apparent that its actual and would-be purchasers all placed a huge valuation on goodwill−a high tribute to the manufacturing genius of the Dodge brothers...
Just what the plans of Dillon, Read & Co., the buyers, are with respect to the Dodge properties is still unknown. Their banking syndicate has already subscribed sufficient money to pay the huge cash price demanded. Bonds and stock of the Company will be offered for public subscription. Back in the after-War period, Dillon, Read & Co. refinanced the then tottering Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., and from this fact some have thought that a merger with Dodge Brothers and possibly other motor and motor-equipment firms might be planned, of a size and importance to rival General Motors. The motor industry...
Eastman, who was for two years a tackle on the University football team, and a mainstay of the line, was dwarfed into insignificance beside the huge bulk of Munn, who is six feet six inches tall and weighs 265 pounds...
Therefore, on the morning of the race, some Oxford undergraduates visited the Cambridge headquarters with a huge papier-mache crab, whose eight legs were shrouded in the billowy breeches that Oxford men consider fashionable. Wansborough laughed. He was confident...