Word: huges
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoch. But Northern Republicans have for many years threatened to "do something" about Southern disfranchisement of the Negro, and here was an admirable opportunity to do it. So the Tinkham amendment was passed, by a narrow margin Amid hysterical excitement, Congressman Tinkham kept hopping up and down, while his huge black beard bristled with triumph as he watched the (momentary) victory of his long-championed but apparently hopeless cause...
From the burning centre of the earth a pillar of fire roared upward, burst through the crater's mouth, hurled itself against the satiny blackness of the sky. Huge volcanic missiles hissed through the air, making red wounds upon the face of the night. Scorching cinders curved outward in shimmering clouds and lava rushed over the volcano's jagged edges and started downward in an implacable, destroying stream. Vesuvius, terrible father of volcanoes, had unloosed his recurring wrath once more...
Synchronously with the creation of these huge public benefactions, John D. Rockefeller has been building himself a huge private estate at Pocantico Hills, N. Y. And that too brought him into the news last week...
Attempted Theft. The Roma is the huge Bellanca sesquiplane which C. Sabelli was to fly to Rome last year. But her size and fame were no deterrents to six presumed thieves who last week audaciously attempted to take her from her hangar at Wilmington, Del. Bellanca guards forewarned by telephone frustrated the attempt and pleased George Haldeman, co-pilot of Ruth Elder's trans-Atlantic flight, now Bellanca's chief test pilot, who privately plans to fly the Roma whither publicity abounds...
Mightiest of Fair structures will be the Hall of Science building. An enormous children's village will be built, as children themselves might build it, with such necessities as huge sand piles and a good place to roller-skate...