Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps the most ingenious argument advanced by the Iron Man, last week, sought to prove that the huge U. S. loans made to Germany since the War provide not the best reason why Germany must pay her Reparations debt in full, but rather one of the best reasons why she should not pay. These U. S. bonds, reasoned Dr. Schacht, saddle Germany with the necessity of paying $240,000,000 interest, every year, and that stupendous charge obviously curtails the Reich's ability to continue paying the present $595,000,000 annual scale of Reparations...
Traditionally the principal backer of the Greek Republic has been London's huge Hambros Bank, Ltd. Recently it has been rumored that Hambros has been trying to coerce the grand, foxy old man of Greece, Eleutherios Venizelos, into concluding an agreement which would give it an absolute monopoly of Greek public financing...
...Governing Board is entrusted with carrying out as far as possible the wishes of Major Higginson, the donor, who conceived of the Union as a general club for Harvard men, undergraduates, members of graduate schools, alumni. The vision of the founder has never been realized; his ideal of a huge gathering-place for half a dozen college generations is one beyond the possibilities or desires of Harvard individualism; but the functions of the Union are no less important for being more limited. Its fate is a concern of all the two thousand five hundred members...
Mysterious trips to Washington followed, whispered conferences at the huge Interior Department Building-things Jackson did not try to understand. More papers were signed and everybody seemed delighted, particularly Mrs. Barnett and her Kansas friends...
There is a widespread opinion among educators as well as laymen that our larger colleges and universities do not do their jobs as efficiently as they might. Various reasons are advanced for their alleged failure. Some say our huge schools are intellectual filling-stations where culture may be had in any given quantity or quality regardless of the student's gas capacity. The remedies suggested are many, but among the more popular is the one of breaking these inert masses up into smaller colleges after the fashion of Oxford and Cambridge. And it may well be that salvation lies that...