Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rift lines. They occur where mountain-making is in progress. Large segments of the earth in adjusting themselves in equilibrium exert tremendous pressure. By this process mountains are raised in the course of a few million years, a comparatively short time geologically speaking. From time to time under the huge stresses which fold and warp rocks, the strain becomes too great in the earth's crust, something gives way and the whole earth shakes. No exact, scientific explanation of these movements has been reached. But it is known that the present is one of the greatest mountain making periods...
...this year. It has not been forgotten that Russia was until 1914 the granary of Europe, and even Bolshevism has not availed to prevent a considerable recovery in wheat production from post-War conditions. There is, of course, an element of propaganda in many of the current stories of huge Russian stocks of wheat, but these have a substratum of truth...
...date will be early October, the stakes huge but of secondary interest. Donoghue has said he will rifle. The American defender will be chosen at the National Trial Sweepstakes by American racing officials...
...huge ZR-1 at Lakehurst, N. J., is fully inflated and will make her trial flight on Sept. '1, probably at night when the air is calm. The ZR-3, a dirigible being built for the Navy by the Zeppelin Company at Friedrichshafen, Germany, is making equally good progress and will fly across the Atlantic in November to be housed likewise at Lakehurst...
Descamps, one of France's most brilliant airmen, owes his life to a tree and his own presence of mind. Gliding near Paris, he lost control and plunged into a ravine headon. Then it was that he managed to lodge his craft squarely in the branches of a huge...