Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interest of accuracy please include Cape May, N. J. Here we have not only one of the largest dirigible hangars in the world but airplane hangars and other equipment constituting a large naval and air station, costing millions of dollars. For reasons unknown, this huge plant is not used, despite its strategic position, located on an excellent deep harbor and near the mouth of the Delaware...
...Poincaré at Paris, but next day in Brussels with the Belgian Finance Minister Baron Maurice Houtart. At present the total "legal liability" of Germany to the allies stands fixed at 132 billion gold marks by the so-called "London Ultimatum" of 1921; but no one dreams that so huge a sum will ever be paid in full and the Dawes Plan functions ad interim to limit the sums which can be exacted from Germany in a given year...
...eighteenth centuries which makes the contents of these three rooms stand out in the memory of the casual observer, the student lounging there after a Fine Arts examination. That screen on the dais, with its silver gray background and autumn flowers behind a brushwood fence, is echoed in the huge grey globe of Shigaraki pottery. The red camelia of the screen finds a red reflection in the lacquer of the ancient stand below. So too with the insolent macaw by Jakucho as his whiteness is given the emphasis of repetition in the whiteness of the jar beneath him. In short...
...This exhibition contains no less than seven examples in pottery and one painting ascribed to Kenzan; all are remarkably like the master's work, some of them are almost certainly by him. Koyetsu, less known abroad than his pupil Korin, is represented if only in delightful reproduction by a huge black pottery raven leaning forward to caw and by a single painting, more important, perhaps, than anything else in the three rooms. This is a tiny square of paper on which, in blue and gold, is a wave overlaid in spidery characters with that famous poem of the seventh century...
Such payments are the keystone of the Dawes Plan and offer the only possible way that Germany can transfer credits so huge that their movement, if made in gold, would disrupt international exchange. The frauds detected, last week, amounted to giving "short measure" to the reputed extent of $12,000,000. To understand how this was done, recall the normal method of paying reparations in kind...