Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...building no Greek Temples," said Mr. Hendrick to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. The dialogue took place in the tenderloin region of the New Fogg Museum where the interviewer found Mr. Hendrick immersed in the arduous duties of his position. He was nursing back to health a large assemblage of huge casts of statues, vases and other impediments connected with the migration...
Pieces typical of Brancusi's work are his "Eve," which might be mistaken for an Afric religious symbol or a representation of a huge mushroom which has been neatly clipped by a lawnmower; his "Golden Bird," which resembles an immature onion; his "Penguins," which looks like a badly constructed snowman; his "Study of Mlle. Pogany," which resembles nothing so much as drip pings from a glassblower's tube...
Tibet. Colonel Peter Kozlov, foremost Russian explorer, last week published in Moscow a report on his recent discovery of Kharakota, dead Tibetan city. Huge stone figures of "evil-eyed females" and a wellful of buried treasure were prominent items. Colonel Kozlov estimated that the simian population of Tibet-monkeys, gorillas, mandrills-far outnumbered the human "and could supply the world's demand for rejuvenation glands for a century." In Kookooner Lake he came upon an island inhabited only by three large-framed, shaggy Buddhist monks who, never before having seen a civilized man, fled like pious cavemen...
...people." When this potent beverage had been mixed, stirred, and the more solid ingredients pounded in a great bowl, the Chief personally strained it through a filter of woven bark, saying: "This make kava very nice. This take out all the grit." The Duke, no weakling, downed a huge swallow of kava. Thereafter, although flushed for a moment, he gave no sign or indication of its taste...
...great. Bus conductors walked ten feet ahead of their busses, connected with them by electric wires on which lamps glowed. When two bus conductors sighted each other they signaled port or starboard to the drivers whose busses did not then bump. At Charing Cross, at every major crossing, huge gasoline torches sent up roaring flames three feet high?barely visible at ten yards...