Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...capturing the energy of the wind by means of a windmill and transmitting this energy in electrical fashion to an ordinary type of propeller. The invention is at once more simple in mechanism and more recondite in principle. Imagine the Flettner ship broadside to a natural wind, with its huge cylinders rotating in the same direction as the hands of a clock laid flat on deck, 18 with the top of the clock at the bow. The air of the broadside wind will follow the path of least resistance and move with, and in the same rotational direction...
...welcome it. Accordingly, Commander J. M. Klein gave Washington a treat by a peaceful two-hour cruise over the city. When the time finally came for the ceremonies, the ZR3 misbehaved disgracefully. Six hours flight had made a dent in the fuel supply carried on board, and the huge dirigible was too light and buoyant. Several hundred sailors hanging on heavy tow lines could not haul her down, and when one of the tow lines snapped, to the discomfiture of the straining gobs, she sailed off again. Admiral Moffett was obliged to give radio orders for release of some...
...when one opened to the story in the December Woman's Home Companion, however, one found "a business man" to be whilom Editor Bruce Barton, with the workings of whose mind one was already familiar. An earnest, sincere man, Editor Barton has a huge following...
...great bulletin boards, on which are posted at regular intervals, commendable--we suppose--samples of advertising matter. Here are flaunted before the eyes of all passers-by, whether they would see them or no, placards for this brand of shoe polish or that type of manure spreader. Glaring in huge type, on highly-colored cardboard, these display cards are an eyesore and an insult to the majority of the students who use the library. However "commendable" they may be on the signboard, in the street car, or on the pages of the Saturday Evening Post, they are a shrieking anachronism...
...proper working, the new cosmopolitan spirit requires a single system of graded institutions, national in extent. At the present time there are gaps--often huge gaps--in the educational process, which should be a gradual progression from the simple to the complex. One of the seemingly insoluble difficulties which colleges have to face is that of inducing preparatory and high schools really to "prepare" their students for college entrance...