Word: huges
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roanoke, Va., stands a good-sized city market. Above the market is an auditorium. The smell of meat and fish often seeps up from below. One day last week a tropical sun blazed through the auditorium's huge uncurtained windows upon some 800 cheering, jostling, excited men and women. The weather made these Virginians uncomfortably hot. Thoughts of Alfred Emanuel Smith and John Jacob Raskob as leaders of the Democratic party made them hotter...
...necessary. For until that date the Soviet Government and "Boss" Stalin have thoroughly committed themselves to an economic problem which is to transform the Soviet Union into an industrial giant, nourished during the next four years by a 24-billion-dollar investment in factory equipment. Of this huge sum 78% is being spent on machines to make machines, only 22% on the manufacture of goods for direct consumption. Therefore Soviet stores have little goods on their shelves. Calico is as expensive as silk. Shiny new boots, seal of a Russian peasant's prosperity, are hard to find, harder...
...Bergamini De Sa ?TIME, June 10). On the night of the Contest two special wires carried the story from Galveston to New York, thence by direct cable to Buenos Aires where special United Press editors hung over the keyboard to relay the story northward to Rio de Janeiro. Huge crowds were gathered in front of the big Rio newspaper offices to watch returns flashed on the screen...
...Cannon attitude seemed close to Catholicism, from which Bishop Cannon acknowledged having occasionally gained inspiration. Organizing the Buck Hill Falls conference was almost entirely the work of one young man, Stanley Horlund High, editor of the Christian Herald, interdenominational weekly. Recently his magazine adopted colored covers. Its circulation, huge for a church periodical, hovers a little above...
Last week in the Vatican a huge intricately carved bronze door, one half of which had been closed since 1870, was slowly pushed wide open. Thus by symbolism, long a power and fascination of the Roman Catholic Church, did Pope Pius XI announce to the world and to the city the consummation of Italy's Church-&-State reconciliation, the ultimate and formal exchange of signed treaties...