Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Though the public has contributed $2,500,000 and Parliament has voted to double that sum (TIME, Jan. 7), the Conservative Government is still procrastinating so outrageously that last week Laborites in the House of Commons, forced from Lord Eustace Percy the admission that not a penny of the huge fund has as yet been spent...
...various and several reasons), and as the World War burst upon Europe, the wisdom of M. Pashitch's course was seriously in doubt. He lived to see it supremely vindicated, from the Serbian standpoint; for the peace treaties gave to Serbia additional territories of 59,400 square miles, including huge slices of Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria, and the whole of the little realm of Montenegro...
President Little thought that all students should be housed on the campus. Several thousand boarded at homes in Ann Arbor. Landladies, foreseeing a loss of income, threatened suit, charged profligacy, wrote irate letters to the Board of Regents. Next year, as Dr. Little planned, a huge women's dormitory will rise on the Michigan campus...
...Massachusetts Squash Racquets Tournament moved into the third round of the competition yesterday with three matches played on the University squash courts. Although the tournament is officially in the third round, it is in the second to all practical purposes because of the huge number of first round byes...
...Grecian marble treasure house, enclosing two lofty rooms of sombre Renaissance magnificence. One contains the great financier's desk, with a paper weight impossible for a child to lift because it is of pure massy gold. The other room is the library proper, with a huge hearth, on either side of which stand ancient columns of lapis lazuli. Around the library runs an overhanging gallery; and the walls are tiered with volumes more precious than gold itself. The effect is solemn and unostentatious, since where all is priceless nothing can obtrude in garish splendor. Here, last week, John Pierpont...