Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...march to pass the shops of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. as the noon shift changed; they hoped by display of power to draw non-union men into the striking ranks. But non-union men, indifferent, raised no cheers. Only heart-breaking news came to the marchers; another company, the huge Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corp. had decided to go nonunion. And then Sheriff Robert H. Braun of Allegheny County ordered the police to disperse all groups of pickets. Meanwhile, in Ohio the Powhatan Mining Co. informed strikers that they must either pay rent or get out of the company...
...seven mad days before, Chicagoans saw mud slung in steam-shovel fashion, the so-called "better element" cheered 10,000 women marching for "Dever and decency." "Big Bill" Thompson, idol of half Chicago, its mayor from 1915-23, made his chief issue the King of England, swung his huge hams of fists, slung mud. Of his onetime intimate, Dr. Robertson, Mr. Thompson said: "The doc is slinging mud. I'm not descending to personalities, but let me tell you if you want to see a nasty sight you; watch Doc Robertson eating in a restaurant. Eggs in his whiskers...
...start a new life "from zero." The Matthew Knowle novel provides funds and Author Owen provides our hero with his conception of a perfect woman, a small divorcee with every quiet grace and no questions. When the posthumous production of the late John Garth's first play is a huge success; when Mrs. Garth, penitent, lies gravely ill; when Matthew Knowle sees the grown son that John Garth sired, the divorcee, Julia, acts "sportingly." Wrench though it is for her, she starts John Garth back to life by leaving Matthew Knowle. . . . Admirers of the British literary male will call Julia...
Hence geology in college is a cultural study of the first rank. From the opening lecture of the elementary course to the end of the most advanced course for professionals, the student must exercise his imaginative muscles. He must think in terms of huge masses, largely or wholly invisible; of gigantic forces at work; of the flow of time, measured in millions of years; of a time scale affecting the whole basis of his philosophy. Geology is a leader among those college studies, which automatically build up the imaginative faculty. This science has long been prominent in Harvard College...
...which was thought to be a quartz claim. General Fitz-John Porter† attempted to bore into the claim. Gold-miner Smith forthwith made an opening into the outlaw shaft from below, built a fire, and smoked out the General's workers. The General promptly installed a huge fan which blew the smoke down into the Smith workings, but whenever the fan was removed the fire was rebuilt. After three weeks the General gave up, returned east...