Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris and severed one of the six 1,200-foot wires which stretch from the top of the great tower (984 feet high, built by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel and completed in 1889) to serve in receiving and transmitting wireless messages. The cable broke at the top of the huge edifice and in crashing to the ground was buried deeply in the earth...
Public opinion, however, is not reassured. It is stated that the Stinnes denial only appertains to the buying of foreign exchanges, and that no mention is made of the huge purchases made by the Stinnes group just before the fall. Furthermore, people hold that Stinnes is strictly accountable to the German people when his financial deals affect their economic and political life...
...followed the armistice in their efforts to reconstruct a war-stricken Europe. Germany is represented as having been dispossessed of intrinsic possessions-territory that had belonged to her for hundreds of years. He says that her economic life has been deliberately ruined, and yet she is asked to pay huge sums for reparations which, he says, are an euphemism for indemnities. Finally he calls upon the Anglo-Saxon race to unite in saving European civilization...
...whose policy is not to make profits but to avoid deficits, stands today the world's first operatic institution and earns a considerable surplus. Mr. Gatti has indeed achieved what many in the old days would have deemed a miracle, when he thus transformed the Metropolitan's huge deficit, which was traditional in previous years, from plus to minus...
...crowd which would fill the new Yankee Stadium, the Polo Grounds and the Yale Bowl, built as one huge amphitheatre, assembled to watch the final football game for the Association Cup at Wembley Stadium, London. The match, between the Bolton Wanderers and the West Ham United, was equivalent to a final World's Series game in America. The King was present...