Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile the King-Emperor and Queen-Empress sojourned amid huge drifts of country snow, at Sandringham. George V was known to have telegraphed his Keeper of the Swans certain instructions as to their wintry care...
Travellers to the Orient via the Suez Canal are dazzled by the huge electric billboard which informs at least 200,000 persons yearly that they ought to buy Sir Thomas Lipton...
...cages to the pavilion of print, growl and mutter, roar like lions or bark like foxes. The word "tolerance" is a small blind rabbit creeping into a heap of refuse. "Evolution" is the word that many people find the most terrifying of any in the zoo. It is a huge sly creature with barrel chest and four foot arms. It has a flat skull and sly, surly eyes. Last week, disregarding the signs that forbid feeding the animals, one J. H. Tate, principal of the Farragut Grammar School, near Knoxville, Tenn., threw this horrible creature a roasted peanut...
...Continental Can Co. will arrange a merger with U. S. Can Co., explained President O. C. Huffman of U. S. Can Co. last week. Brick Furnaces. At Mexico, Mo. was the Liptak Fire Brick Arch Co.; at Detroit was the Bigelow Arch Co.- both companies specialists in constructing those huge brick furnaces needed by industrial and power plants. Last week they were merged as the Bigelow-Liptak Corp., Frank B. Bigelow president...
...Valbuena Flying Field at dawn this morning eager to greet Col. Lindbergh. . . . At 8:40 President Calles arrived accompanied by his entire cabinet . . . Ambassador Morrow, seated between President Calles and General Obregon. . . . With reports at 10:30 that Col. Lindbergh was half way between Tampico and Mexico City, the huge crowd (more than 25,000) began to mill around eager to get good positions. Nine Mexican Army airplanes hopped off to meet him. One of the planes doing stunt flying went into a nose dive and crashed several hundred yards in front of the Presidential stand. The pilot...