Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...various universities declined to enter the contest this year have not been divulged, but it seems that the only thing Harvard will lose by this is a considerable amount of publicity. It is doubtful whether many people took last year's culture battle as anything but a huge joke, and the final outcome had little significance outside of resulting in a gain of $5,000 for the Harvard English department...
...unnecessary or futile. The endowment granted to the Fogg Art Museum a few weeks ago may well become a classic example of sensible generosity; and the awards of the General Education Board for literary research of importance, while not announced with the explosive force that accompanied the earlier huge gift, are along similar lines of a practical value that only the most hardened Philistine would deny...
...read by perhaps 15,000,000 U. S. men, women and children) contained a veiled rebuke for female failure to use contraceptives. The rebuke consisted of a cartoon by Donald McKee, captioned "Why the March Hare Was Mad." It depicted a buck hare hopping furiously beside a huge bed on whose three pillows lay an abashed, puzzled doe hare with nine newborn.* Harold the buck hare: "Again? What's the idea? Did you never hear of Birth Control...
Reports state that other Democratic leaders are also adopting the hurdy-gurdy hobby: and when the Democratic campaign deficit is considered, a solution presents itself. New York is notable for huge parades at the slightest provocation. Lead by bands of leaders grinding out from hurdy-gurdies the strains of "Sidewalks of New York", a Democratic parade might certainly bestir sympathetic bystanders to sacrifice their pocket change. Such a method might overcome any financial difficulties of the party and insure Democratic forcasts for 1932, which are now overdue...
...Several examples will serve to illustrate the methods of dealing with vibration difficulties. In the western part of the country there is a large power plant to which water is brought from a great head by huge pipes. The residents of the vicinity were considerably disturbed by a high pitched sound which seemed to be produced by the water pipes. After thorough investigation it was found that the noise was due to the number of blades in the rotors of the turbines and their relation to the speed of propagation of vibrations through water. A mere modification of the rotor...