Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...massy shaft of the Washington monument, which gleams pink at sunrise. If he goes to his south window and peers to the right, he may also see a corner of the State, War & Navy Building. In his room is the bed that was built for Abraham Lincoln, so huge (6½ ft. by 9 ft.) that four Roosevelt children could be comfortably tucked away in it crosswise...
President Polk was the first to marvel at gas illumination (1849). Mrs. Fillmore installed the first bath tub and cook stove in 1851. The stove brought protests from her Negro cook who preferred the huge open basement fireplace with its cranes and hooks. In spring and summer the Fillmore family moved over to higher Georgetown, "because the marshes between it [the White House] and the River made malaria inevitable." President Pierce first benefited from a central heating plant...
...reception line forms in the basement and crawls up a red-carpeted stairway to the main floor (see cut), where it turns left into the foyer. Vast mirrors double the crowd. Light sprays from a huge bronze lantern overhead and from countless bronze standards about the walls...
...Francisco's huge-domed Temple Emanu-El is a bright Byzantine touch on Arguello Boulevard. The coruscant half-globe catches the sun's rays, seems to blaze with its own light. On an especially sunny day, last week, when the dome was very bright 600 Jews of the "reformed" faith gathered underneath it. One of them, glancing at the synagog, quoted "How beautiful are thy tents, O Jacob; thy dwelling places, O Israel." Thus opened the 31st Council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations...
Roosevelt Field, adjoining Curtiss Field, last week, was the game of a group of New York bankers. They were forming a $1,500,000 corporation to develop Roosevelt Field for revenue. They counted chiefly on a huge new flying school and, within a few years, on trans-Atlantic transport...