Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Huge speculations" in oil stocks, carried on under numbers instead of names, were declared to be one of the next disclosures in view-to show that those who had advance knowledge of the oil leases played the market extensively...
...help provide for this expenditure, taxes on vice-opium-smoking, gambling, etc.-are levied to the extent of $17,200 a day. Raising huge sums by loan came to an end when Cantonese merchants declined to take up a New Year loan...
Sound and timely are the words of the Yale president in his annual report. The impossibility of meeting demands for tickets for the more important football games "even with the huge resources of the Yale bowl," leads "inevitably to some question regarding the part which these contests have come to play in our academic life...
This is true. It has the merit indeed of understatement. The huge salaries are paid outside the faculty. A great business enterprise of a quasi independent nature is built up. The glory is for those who prove their prowess in the stadium. Athletics, sports, competitions of course. Only that the university itself may control them, and that relative values may be adjusted, for the sake of the students themselves in whom all the worth of the institution is supposed to centre. College presidents are thinking about these things. They even discuss them "right out in public." Changes are coming.Boston Herald...
...aviation have been invited to attend the smoker this evening at 8 o'clock at M. I. T. of the Aeronautical Engineering Society. The design, construction, and operation of the "Shenandoah" will be described by Mr. C. P. Burgess, who was associated with its design and was aboard the huge "lighter-than-air" craft during its recent runaway flight...