Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Joel and Barnato families which now totals at least $100,000,000. Young Barney drifted out to South Africa in the '70s when individual diggers spaded the surface soil and "panned" it for diamonds, each man with his own teetering sieve. Since "diamond earth" occurs in huge cones pointing downward, the diggers soon found their open pits were becoming death traps as "mud rushes" (slides) caved in upon them from the perimeter. Subsoil mining followed as a matter of course, but subsoil mining is expensive. It was in forming the great mining syndicates which bought out the open...
...hands twice, slaves rush out, carry the designated women off to be bathed and anointed, then served up to their lord and master. Herein, the high producer clapped his hands and 90-odd chorines went to the showers. There is a mystery and a romance about the East. A huge cast, gorgeous settings, some good singing and Vivienne Segal make The Desert Song alluring, but the sands of Broadway do not burn...
TIDES-Ada and Julian Street- Doubleday, Page ($2). "Do you," the Authors Street virtually ask their reader, "remember when men, and after a while women, first bestrode huge, high wheels with little saddles on them-'bicycles' they were called-and went 'scorching' along past the phaetons and runabouts and sulkies and dogcarts and victorias to the mingled amusement and admiration of the people who confined their sporting activities to parchesi, crokinole, the schottische and 'Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay'?" Of course the reader remembers, with gusto. The museum trip continues. ". . . And when Michigan...
Leaving Rock Creek, we turned north, climbing 1,000 feet by many of Mt. Guyot, and came to a gap at steep zig zags and skirting the east base 11,000 feet. Then, passing over flat areas covered with granite sand and huge pine, we came down to Crabtree Meadows, on the creek of the same name...
...squash racquets. Ever since the war, this youngest child of battledoor and shuttlecock has been gaining adherents until now it is rated as one of the most popular games being played in England. Perhaps the fact that the Prince of Wales is a devotee is partly responsible for the huge attendances at the twelve tournaments which are held annually in England. And women have accepted the sport with an enthusiasm which women rarely evidence in person al athletics...