Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When it was discovered that their regular readers had captured so little of their huge fund, the Graphic was surprised and provoked. Therefore, since the rules of the contest had bot been so framed as to keep out the experts, the Graphic proceeded two months after the game was over to disqualify them by embodying a number of additional ex post facto rules in an affidavit which they said winners must sign in order to get their awards. Probably not one winner in ten could truthfully sign the affidavit...
...Department of the Interior published a report by Geologists C. E. Dobbin, V. H. Barnett and W. T. Thom Jr. of the U. S. Geological Survey. They said that the 75-foot coal seams near Minturn, Wyo., are only part of huge system of seams embracing Campbell, Crook, Weston, Toniobrara and Converse Counties, which contain some 14 billion tons. Some 17.8 billion tons is the U. S. coal mining total to date...
Black River. Mrs. Sarah Pollard, 87, aunt of President Coolidge, told how the flood came to Proctorsville, Vt., shaking that hamlet at night "like a huge, grey monster...
...Watson of Indiana and Pat Harrison of Mississippi. There were business boosters from St. Louis, Vicksburg, Natchez, Baton Rouge; rooster-boosters from Cairo, Keokuk, Dubuque and Quincy. There were a policemen's octet, a quartet of Pullman porters, an Italian band dressed as sailors. One and all wore huge bullseye badges inscribed "America First," "Farm Relief," "Inland Waterways to Double Exports," "National Flood Control to Prevent Disasters." Singing, grinning, shouting, backslapping, this horde converged upon the Mayflower Hotel in an uproarious phalanx around their loudly lumbering leader, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago...
...Caucasian cavalry dashed by, their gleaming sabres at salute, their long black capes flowing behind; protection troops, wearing their round astrakhan caps, passed by, a little regiment of dwarfs, to the tune of the famed "Volga Boat song"; then came the Turkoman cavalry at a sharp trot, wearing their huge black shakos and great ponchos. Many of the civilian men and women wore weird costumes of the Middle Ages...