Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven, Conn., November 5.--In order to provide for the large crowd expected at the dance on Friday, November 21, before the Harvard-Yale football game, it has been decided to lay down two-thirds of the huge promenade dancing floors in the Commons, the University dinning halls. This floor is only used for the largest dances here...
About Senator William E. Borah's reelection there seemed to be no question. A huge majority for him could be seen rolling up on Idaho's peaks, though he was detained on a rat hunt (see Page 3) in Washington, helpless to help it roll. Few Republicans could hope for a higher compliment than that paid Senator Borah by the rabidly Democratic New York World, which published an editorial addressed to the people of Idaho, imploring them not to fail in their duty of reëngaging this valuable national servant...
...third consecutive year the entire Bowl is sold out for the Army-Yale game which will take place tomorrow. In 1921 when West Point was again placed on Yale's schedule, after a lapse of several years, the crowd fell just 6,000 short of filling the huge stadium with its capacity of 75,000. But in 1922 and 1923 every seat was occupied and this year the demand for tickets has increased to such an extent that they are as much sought after as those for the Princeton and Harvard contests. While the rivalry between Yale and the Army...
Undoubtedly the financial "event" of the past week has been the long-awaited German external loan, $110,000,000 of which, bearing a 7% coupon, was offered for subscription at 92 by a huge syndicate headed by J. P. Morgan...
Frantic measures to assure safety were necessary with the R-34. Until the last cable had been tied at the huge Roosevelt Field, anxiety was in every man's mind. The ZR-3's arrival at Lakehurst was calm, almost commonplace...