Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dear Sir: A lion hunt is planned for the destruction of huge beasts that are prowling the mountains of South Platte Ca४n. One huge creature has driven away all the other game from the forests, and is killing sheep, deer and pigs near the homes. Lives of children attending sheep are unsafe. Even the dogs whine and hide when they get his spoor. The sport of tracking and killing such game is worthy of any of the men of the Capital. . . . We would like to see you and your friends enjoy this truly royal sport. . . . The cold wave...
...share, while in Westinghouse's worst year since the War, 1921-1922, earnings were $3.89 per share. Engineers regard the electrical industry still in its infancy. In the next decade, the building of "superpower" plants is confidently predicted, requiring vast amounts of electrical equipment. Furthermore, electrification of our huge railway system has already begun, and in a period of lower construction costs will probably make rapid progress...
...fancy lightly turns to throwing paper, matches, and electric light bulbs out the window. As the game progresses details are added. Trying to break the lights on the opposite side of the Oval with a piece of kindling wood or a bottle is an absorbing pastime. It is a huge joke on the janitors. If one can drop a chair on a campus policeman it counts six, a chair and a book-case eight, and the joke is on the policeman. Setting fire to the round-house wins the game. Thus all the teeming youth, the splendid young manhood...
...audience that all this frantic striving after gigantic effects did not, could not, fulfil Beethoven's expectations for his magnum opus. The Master was straining every nerve to be really Heaven-storming. Not content with a mere orchestra, he had to have a quartet of solo-singers and a huge choir: something decidedly new and revolutionary for his time. He treated the voices brutally: made them sing a series of long high notes that are almost unmanageable...
...empty space of the fusilage provides quite a large degree of buoyancy, till the water leaks through the cloth covering. To test the flotation of one of the huge air liners, the British Air Ministry has determined on an interesting experiment. One of its less valuable planes will be put into flying condition, loaded with a weight equivalent to that of fuel, pilot and eight passengers and set adrift in the sea off Felixstone. The probabilities are that the plane will float for hours, thus reassuring the public that nothing but a few hours' discomfort would follow a plunge...