Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gibson, Ind., in a huge freight yard of the Indiana Harbor Belt R. R., Bell Telephone Co. engineers installed and announced perfect a radio telephone transmitter in the yard-master's signal tower and receiving sets with loud speakers in switch-engine cabs, the antennae being placed on the rear of the tenders. So perfect was the communication that engineers received their orders farther from the tower than their answering whistles could be heard...
...Mather, Associate Professor of Physiography in the University, yesterday released the facts to a CRIMSON representative concerning the recent finding of the Johnstown mastodon. The remains of the huge pachyderm were unexpectedly unearthed near Dr. Mather's home in Granville, Ohio, while he was visiting his parents, and he was called upon to examine and identify the bones. The circumstances connected with the finding were of an extraordinary nature...
During his absence, Friend Butte, who owned the swamp where his tenant had started the sow's obsequies, claimed the huge skeleton which was being excavated. In a brief legal action, he obtained possession and promptly sold the find to Max Hirschberg, a Newark, Ohio, business man, for $5,000 cash...
...Mather was conducted to the excavation ditch where he spent half a day groping in the swamp ooze to determine whether the skull was complete and whether all the vertebrae of the skeleton were there. He was convinced at once that the find was a mastodon of huge proportions, unusually complete in all its parts. He assisted in naming and arranging the bones that had been found, and in giving directions for the excavation work which was done by workmen with their hands alone in order to avoid injuring the skeleton...
...Elizabeth Sinclair of the amber eyes, inscrutable, majestic, heiress of a clan which had its roots in the shade of a southern plantation and its later branches in opulent California; her father, the great Kajetan, fiery master of the piano, a sort of Pietro Mascagni of fiction, with huge handfuls of blue-black hair and the hot blood of Italy's vine-clad valleys. Elizabeth Sinclair died soon after Adrienne was born; Kajetan, like a wanton Ulysses, had left for other shores. In Laguna Vista, California, a delicious world began to unfold itself to Adrienne . . . bronzed turkeys leapt...