Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...already indicated by the half million reindeer that have been reared in northern Alaska from a herd of 1,300 introduced in 1902. The Antarctic will always be less important than the Arctic economically, thinks, Dr. Brown, but it offers what remains in the world of spectacular pioneering. Huge "missing stretches" of the supposed Antarctic continent remain to be mapped. The terrific Antarctic blizzards have yet to be explained. Without referring directly to Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd's proposed Antarctic airplane survey next year, Dr. Brown deprecated exploration from the air as too swift and cursory to execute...
Counterclockwise to the sun. a U. S. monoplane was winging its way over strange soil and seas. Brown natives on lonely wastes and swarthy fishermen on desolate coasts looked upward from their fires and nets to see the huge hummingbird dart eastward overhead. Edward F. Schlee, Detroit oil man, and William S. Brock, onetime air mail pilot, drove the Pride of Detroit toward the glory of circling the world in record time. The previous record made by airplane, train and boat: 28 days, 14 hours, 36 minutes...
...Royal Windsor had landed with one wing afire. The blaze was extinguished. Regretfully Flyers Clarence Schiller and Phil Wood took from the ship a wreath marked "Nungesser-Coli" which they had hoped to drop as a memorial into the vast grey sea. ¶For nearly a mile a huge Farman Bluebird snorted and rolled, gathering speed at Le Bourget Field, Paris. It rose, surprising some, for it weighed twelve tons. It was the largest ship yet to attempt the transatlantic flight. It rose slowly. Vainly Leon Givon and Pierre Corbu, French flyers, tried to put it above 1,000 feet...
...after the Sacco-Vanzetti execution the Evening Graphic, gum-chewers' sheetlet published in Manhattan by Bernarr Macfadden, blazed on the newsstands with a huge headline...
...switchboard. . . . The switch went in. ... Sacco's hands . . . doubled into a knot. The veins in his long, thin, white hands began to rise and kept on rising until I thought they would burst and drench all of us with blood. . . . Sacco's neck was swelling to a huge inhuman size. . . . The saliva was literally pouring out of his mouth. . . . Try to compare 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit* [the temperature of the death shock] with 100 degrees in the shade when you complain of the heat and you get some idea how cultured and conservative Massachusetts roasts her murderers alive...