Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...international episode. Six years ago Nicola Sacco, factory worker, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, fish peddler, were convicted for a double murder in South Braintree, Mass. Today they are neither free nor executed. Radicals and liberals the world over have respectively tossed bombs at U. S. embassies and put up a huge defense fund to show that they thought Mr. Sacco and Mr. Vanzetti had been convicted unjustly. The defense says that in 1920 the U. S. was on a militant radical hunt, and so used a murder conviction as a speedy method of getting rid of two Italian radicals...
...Coolidge Tube. After receiving his gold medal last week, Dr. Coolidge brought out upon the platform an astonishing tangle of insulators, wires, supports, switches, a huge induction coil-equipment for supplying 350,000 volts. In his hand he held, a glass vessel, five feet long, bulging in the middle. This was a vacuum tube, made portable so that it could be attached to an exhaustion pump in any laboratory. Into one neck ran the usual filaments to conduct electric current. These filaments ended in electrodes, of which the negative one or cathode could be heated white hot electrically before introducing...
...Loves Us. Joseph P. McEvoy, author of Americana, The Potters, comic supplements, slashes bitterly at the huge industrial juggernaut that rolls flat the spirit of Hector Maclnerny Midge, average U. S. citizen. Though many have essayed to deal out Menckian blows this season, nothing on the current stage satirizes so incisively, originally, the cruel banalities of "big business, gogetters" as does this play about a man who is stuck for life at the assistant sales-manager level of a greeting card manufactory. At a "Father and Son" luncheon, the Reverend Harold Klump, "he-Christian," sounds the keynote of large-scale...
...only college in the country to encounter difficulty in providing its students with proper comestibles was afforded yesterday by F. H. Roth Division Manager of the Waldorf System, Mr. Roth affirmed that Cornell, similarly confronted by the eating situation six years ago, solved the problem nicely by constructing a huge common dining-hall that accommodates 1200 men at each meal...
Extra-constitutional powers were accorded the Executive Council to levy a special assessment on the 3,000,000 members of the A. F. of L., in order to create a huge fund with which to fight company unions and shop representative schemes. A resolution announced...