Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seaport of Haiti, the burning rays of a tropical sun shone on well-scrubbed decks and burnished brass and steel made rainbows in flying spray. More than 100 U. S. warships strung out in a long grey line against lazily heaving waves and the deep blue of the sky. Huge battleships, their flags flying, moved along like imperturbable swimming pyramids; slim grey destroyers cut through the water as precisely as a butcher's whirling knife slices cheese; ungainly plane and submarine tenders waddled past. The only sounds were the faint swish of the waves, the wasp-like drone...
...gentlemen had rowed out, sweating, into the great crescent river-harbor of New Orleans, La., to the Japanese world cruise ship Santos Mam. There they had found a huge, six-foot, blue-eyed Englishman of 58, who admitted to having been from 1917 to 1922 the most potent jurist in India, the Advocate General of Bengal, a post second in dignity only to the Viceroyship. Sipping their tea, the gentlemen of the press gave eager heed to Sir Thomas Clarke Pilling Gibbons. Lady Gibbons poured...
...long to clear the foul end in the event of a conflagration, and the percentage of carbon monoxide at the foul end would endanger life even under normal tunnel conditions. The late Clifford M. Holland won a mighty memorial by devising a system of four stations, operating 84 huge fans, to send currents of fresh air into the base of the tubes, on each side, through chutes running the length of the tubes with two-inch vents at close intervals. Outlet vents in the ceiling of the tubes draw the bad air out perpendicularly...
Speaking of the Yard, Mr. Bourdon said. "Only Matthews, Stoughton, Divinity and Memorial Halls, were standing then. Oh yes, one other the Peabody Museum was standing in the middle of a huge...
Rubber Tires (Bessie Love). The heroine bundles her family into a rickety automobile, sets out for California and better fortune. Literally, luck is with her, for the manufacturers advertise a huge reward for return of her car. It is the first they ever made -valuable, therefore, by way of contrast. In chasing the party across the continent, the director provides good farce...