Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Football enthusiasts of 1930, watching a game in (for instance) the Harvard Stadium may perhaps be distracted from the contest by the appearance, out of the sky, of a huge sausage-shaped bag moving along at better than 50 knots. Should the sausage descend close enough, the whole Stadium would be darkened by its shadow, for two football fields laid end to end would not equal its 720 feet of length. Should it approach on a mission of destruction, it could open fire with a battery of artillery. And should a defending airplane squadron seek to rise over...
...July 12 another White Russian army of 35,000 was to take the field from Lithuania. Rumania next was to contribute another huge army...
...placed it; and last week His Majesty's Governor General, Viscount Willingdon, fittingly upheld there the dignity of the Crown by presiding over a series of Diamond Jubilee ceremonies lasting, on the principal day, from before noon until after midnight. Most impressive was the maiden ringing of a huge, sweetly toned new carillon from the Tower of the Canadian Parliament. As the bells pealed, their reverberations spread throughout the Dominion upon a network of repeatedly amplified radio waves...
...Robertson, the St. Louis backers of Colonel Lindbergh's transatlantic flight; Howard E. Coffin and Paul Henderson of the National Air Transport Inc. (air mail operators); Casey Jones, skillful pilot; Chester W. Cuthell, onetime U. S. Shipping Board counsel. It seemed likely that this group would form a huge corporation, would put ships in the skies to compete with the Bellanca planes over the New York-Chicago route, would eventually link every U. S. metropolis...
Bull & Dog Near Oregon, Ill., Farmer William P. Pierce dropped the dog he was intending to kill for constantly stealing eggs, when a bull attacked him. Neighbors turned away, sickened as the bull knocked the man to earth. But the convicted dog set at the huge beast, tore at him, until he turned from the man, to chase after the dog. Farmer Pierce may live. Bull & Girl...