Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...normal years people feel no need to pay higher taxes for improvements in reservoir space. Thus, though cities expand, and therby use more water, the facilities remain the same. However, when a drought appears, the need for more funds is stamped on the taxpayers by talk of a huge water shortage. Bryan believes that though there is a definite shortage at this time, it is not as pressing as would appear. Winter and spring precipitation should, he says, replenish the low supply...
...store was designed by the firm of Dawson, Oliver, and Murtagh, and features ten-foot bookshelves, accessible by ladderways and ramps. Huge photographs of the Yard and Harvard buildings, by Louis W. Baker '46, line the walls...
...Pakistan alone there are three universities with more than a hundred colleges affiliated to them. Tension exists between the native and huge refugee student populations. WSSF is attempting to ease the present crisis by providing a student program and adopting concrete relief projects...
...become a traders' and tourists' delight. Despite civil war on the mainland and the Nationalist blockade of China's coast, Hong Kong's trade this year may reach an alltime high. Daily, British and American ships slip into Hong Kong's harbor; nightly, huge motor junks, heavy with Western merchandise, weigh anchor for the ports of Red China...
...Fines. In the East last week the air seemed alive with waterfowl. One huge flight winged in and spent the night on saltwater bays and coves inside New York City limits, where shooting is prohibited. Elsewhere in New York, New Jersey and Maryland, however, the twelve-gauge guns began barking, though in the East too hunters were plagued with fair weather...