Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to Sarnoff it was the War that put radio on its feet, because influential men began to invest huge sums in the Marconi Radio Company. This was made necessary because the German submarines cut all the transatlantic cables. From 1920 on, the radio has advanced by leaps and bounds. From a business point of view, this new invention was sure to be a success because it accomplished the apparently impossible. The radio has saved approximately $30,000,000 for America, said Sarnoff, for it has greatly cut down the expense of transcontinental communication...
...first phalanxes are already merging into formation. And what a fight there will be when one huge phalanx starts stepping on another phalanx's toes! Automobile v. billiard table (go out and play v. stay home and play). Apartment v. baby carriage (a baby cannot be taken for a ride on a roof). Meat v. vegetable (doctors disagree). Radio v. crossword puzzle...
...more casual writings: Lewis Carroll. His book was illustrated by Sir John Tenniel, famed Punch cartoonist. In the first edition, the illustrations were so blurred that purchasers were advised to return their copies in exchange for nice clean second editions. From the start, Alice in Wonderland was a huge success. Queen Victoria wrote to Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and asked him to send her some of his other books, whereupon, anxious to preserve the distinction between C. L. Dodgson and the frivolous Lewis Carroll, he sent her A Syllabus of Plane Algebraic Geometry, An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, and Euclid, Book...
...Mellon must have known from the beginning of the iniquity attached to Sinclair's contribution. Mellon refused to censure Will Hay's acceptance of the money or to give any information to the committee at the time. Senator Walsh said that when Mellon was made aware of Sinclair's huge contribution, the investigation of the Teapot Dome lease had already begun...
...glittering pageant of an Admiralty Court-martial unfolded, last week, upon His Majesty's aircraft carrier Eagle as she rode at anchor, huge, grim and ominous, in the harbor of Gibraltar...