Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...export total of 140,000,000 meters of textile goods for the past twelve-month-as against 192,000,000 meters exported in the record year 1913. These figures indisputably show that Dictator Stalin is rapidly putting Russia back on the map as a country of huge exports- but is there any kind of joker in this indicated trend...
...flakes is the ornate Cathedral of St. Basil, multicolored cupolas and towers bedizened with snow. Beyond lie the grim walls and towers of the Kremlin. The people have just heard the ukase. They stand in clusters, joyfully inarticulate, habitually stolid. The bizarre tints of the Cathedral glimmer like a huge lantern of faith above and beyond the awestruck host...
...particles bumped into each other and many larger particles. Larger particles kept colliding until planetesimals developed. Planetesimals smashed into each other in such quantities that eventually Sun planets, including the Earth, acquired huge mass and the power to hold great satellites, like the Moon, in their own orbits...
...First Trader winks appreciatively, slaps his thighs, it is a Knowing Joke. But if, new to his business, he smiles gratefully and proceeds to buy Alaska Juneau, it becomes a Practical Joke. In either case, it is a huge success...
...written in the Hollywood ritual that no evening is so sacred as the opening night of a potent picture. In soft purring motors come the stars through the bracing California evening. The blocks about the theatre are set with huge searchlights sweeping heaven. Fierce cordons of police force order in the crowds, thousands of common folk, many of whom have waited at vantage points since afternoon to see the gods descend from their chariots and pass nobly through the gates. Radio stations spread each new arrival's name across the miles of night. Stars cry their greeting through the microphone...