Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Universal Manhood Suffrage Bill was passed by huge majorities in both Houses of the Imperial Japanese Diet. The Bill will be sent to the Prince Regent for the Royal Assent and promulgated by Imperial rescript which makes it the law of the land. Plans were being laid to declare Apr. 28 a national holiday in commemoration of the passage of the measure...
More adept than even Darius were the Romans in exploiting the curious raptures which affect men upon seeing great animals loose and hungry. Their circuses sprang up, like huge granite toadstools, in every shamble of the later Empire. After they had observed the antics of the Huns who invaded Italy in the Fifth Century, however, the Romans' appetite for watching wild beasts at play disappeared. The brave days of the circus ended. Only in the last 100 years did circusing come back to honor as a profession. Last week, with many blazing announcements, the Ringling-Barnum Circus came...
...center of manufacture for the equipment of the air. They have recently donated an airport to the City-a model of its kind. When Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of the ZR3 in its trip across the Atlantic, visited Detroit, Henry Ford invited him to bring the huge ship to Detroit. "We'd have no place to tie up. We'd have to have a tower of some kind to tie up to," said Dr. Eckener. "Well, I'll build you one," said Henry Ford. And he is now building a huge mooring tower-the largest and most...
...matter of the professor of Legislation. Dean Pound continues, "One of the chief problems of today is how to enforce the huge output of legal precepts required by the complex life of urban industrial communities. Here again is a subject in which a professorship, in a national school, in which students from every part of the country compel the teacher to consider the question from many points of view, may do great things...
...endowments should be directed for its benefit. Already there is complaint against overemphasis on graduate school development. It has been suggested that the agricultural endowments would come from institutions and men not interested in any other phase of Harvard's development; yet $12,000,000 is a sum so huge that its collection would be impossible without a general appeal to graduates...