Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shanghal General Sun, who holds at present the province in which Shanghai is located, is opposing the advance of the nationalist leader, General Chiang. The foreign population of the port and surrounding country of Shanghai is approximately 40,000 and the Chinese population about 1,300,000. There are huge investments there, both foreign and Chinese which would be jeopardized, as well as the lives of the citizens, if the Chinese armies were to try to seize Shanghai. It is for this reason that various governments are sending ships and soldiers to that neighborhood. As far as the United States...
From Cologne in the Rhineland a huge German air liner droned up and away to London at 90 miles an hour. As it flew, roaring mightily, over the English Channel, passengers looked down at a plodding tug, a pudgy craft capable of perhaps eight miles per hour...
Gleaming, silent, a grey limousine crossed the huge square before the House of Parliament at Budapest last week, and drew up at the massive portal. A flunkey opened the door and out stepped a man clad all in black. Four blazing diamond brooches held in place the sole ornament of his costume, a green sash across his breast. He was the Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg, claimant to the Hungarian Throne (TIME, Jan. 24 et ante...
Yale attempted no national comparison of itself with that huge cosmopolite, Columbia University...
...Havemeyer, who denied he was a hero, was content. He had had "one last swim." Only at night do sharks frequent Nassau harbor. And when they do come in from the ocean, they are sand sharks; scavengers, not killers. On moonlight nights they may be seen and heard, huge but probably harmless, lurking and feeding near the piles of the town slaughterhouse. Once there was a monster that Nassau called "The Harbor Master." At the buoy where Mr. Havemeyer dived, "shark hunts" are sometimes held. When the tide is ebbing, a goat's throat is cut and the body...