Word: huges
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Young Plan the total was fixed at $8,806,000,000 cash. On the instalment plan, over an agreed stretch of 58 years, this sum will become, with cumulative 5% interest, 27 billions. This sum, huge though it sounds, is 116 billions less than the creditor nations demanded at Versailles ten years...
...outline at some length the Capital Building Program at Washington and . . . say "Within the so-called Triangle will then be erected seven huge Federal buildings of white marble...
John Pierpont Morgan, yachtsman, has made his last voyage on his huge, black-hulled Corsair. Last week the Corsair beat United Cigar Store Tycoon George J. Whalen's Warrior across the Atlantic. In Manhattan the Corsair's officers announced that she would be turned over to the U. S. Geodetic Survey. Mr. Morgan will not stop yachting. A two-million-dollar successor to the Corsair is being built in Bath...
...large contributor to Vare election funds. Trustees of Girard are elected by the Judges of the Common Pleas Court, whom Senator-suspect Vare reputedly controls. If the Judges should have occasion to elect more Vare men to be Girard trustees, what, wondered the alarmed alumni, might happen to the huge Girard endowment...
...However, the two former plans are narrowly limited in their application. The real young barbarians are seldom honor students or sons of Harvard. They are "C" students in the state universities and newer colleges. Not until these institutions follow the example of Wisconsin and begin to break up their huge classes will we have an opportunity to realize the intellectual possibilities of the first-generation collegian. H. G. Graham in the New Republic