Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only books and newspapers have been stored in the building. During the war, the Army conducted a research center in the first floor, and Business School beds and Fogg Museum furniture were kept in the building at various times. Currently a huge stack of boxes of WPA documents is sitting on the first level, courtesy of the Massachusetts State Library...
...last week received the news of the honor conferred on him with hardly a flick of his huge, bushy white eyebrows. He announced he would go to Oslo in December to receive his Nobel Prize medal, diploma and check; a true Scotsman, he noted that the prize money (to be used "for peace") would be only $21,900, almost $10,000 less than what it would have been before devaluation...
...constitution flatly defines "Statism" as the republic's guiding economic policy. The Turkish .government operates power plants, railroads, ports, communications, sugar, salt and tobacco manufactories, oil, steel & coal enterprises ; it dominates shipping and banking. The bureaucrats have grandiose dreams of industrialization and self-sufficiency. They built a huge steel mill at Karabuk for $23 million-equal to the national education budget for one year. They are blueprinting airplane factories and plush government offices. But Turkey cannot yet keep pace with their plans...
...initial $6,000,000 to provide a new 8,000-acre campus for Durham's Trinity College (provided it changed the name to Duke). He wanted the architecture to be Gothic ("I've seen the Princeton buildings. They appeal to me"). He ordered a huge chapel with 77 stained-glass windows, a 50-bell carillon, and a tower modeled after one at Canterbury. He wanted schools of medicine, law and divinity. He planned a hospital with 416 beds, a stadium big enough for 35,000 spectators, a student union complete with the latest potato-peeling and dish-washing...
...half-time formation the Dartmouth band formed a beer mug, and then emptied it. The Crimson promptly raised the problem of liquor consumption to a more sophisticated level by popping the cork from a huge bottle of champagne and pouring the sparkling liquid into an awaiting cup. They finished off the whole affair with an ultra-polite...