Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coming out at the roar of ugly Holborn, he ruminates: Catholicism sat like a sister of mercy by the deathbed of its mother, the ancient Culture. Protestantism was the nurse of a lusty child, modern civilisation." Passing a huge Dissenters' "chapel," he says: "It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally...
...sturdy 60-ft. hull, built of the wonderfully light and strong duralumin, is lighter and less liable to soakage than the wooden-hull type of construction it Displaces, can keep afloat in the roughest sea. The wings, while fabric-covered, are also metal in their structure. Two huge Packard engines of 800 horsepower each revolve at 2,200 times a minute-hence their large power for comparatively small weight-while the propellers are geared down and therefore work more slowly and efficiently. The engines are placed in tandem, with a propeller at front and rear end. Thus, if one motor...
...financial side the modern university is a huge and multiplex corporation. Requiring sound business organization in a mass and flexible administration in every detail. Educational it confronts a well high insoluble problem, that of teaching modern scientific methods without neglecting the humanities, and of inculcating a liberality of mind that stops short of destructive radicalism. Conceivably, the graduate, in the intervals of carnival rejoicing, might accuse his Alma Mater of sacrificing teachers of might to a balanced budget, of accumulating laboratories while the classics decay, of grinding the face of liberalism beneath the heel of the business man's conservatism...
...domestic politics, the Baldwin Government will probably reimpose the McKenna duties (TIME, May 12), because they afford some measure of protection to Empire produce, the lack of which had disastrously affected the automobile industry of Britain. It seems established by the huge Conservative vote in Lancashire, home of the cotton mills and Richard Cobden of free trade fame, that protection is not so much of a bugaboo as was Socialism; therefore, a trend to protective tariffs is more than probable...
...bystanders as he cracked out other balls into the night from the first tee of his Briarcliff Lodge (N. Y.) links. The bystanders were illuminating engineers having a convention, and in their honor, by their ingenuity, the first tee, fairway and green were flooded with day-like light from huge searchlights, from bulbs strung down the rough; Not every ball reached the green ; only the one reached the hole at one stroke. Many were lost. But all" persons present conceded the possibility of playing "night golf."* Wrote Colyumist Phillips for The Sun: "'Ever play Geranium Hills?' one golfer...