Word: huges
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University Gymnasium on the plot of ground bounded by Dunster, South, Holyoke, and Winthrop Streets. The digging attracts scores who are awed by the work itself. Few however, realize the historical significance of this ground, which hour by hour, week by week, is being scooped up in the huge jaws of the steam shovels, and carried away by a never ending stream of trucks. For some time the workers of the Hegeman, Harris Co., of New York, the contractors have put much effort into the task...
...blue eyes went straight to his heart. He gowned her and be jeweled her from the Portuguese treasury, took her cruising on the Amelia, of which a notable appointment was a royal bed eight feet wide. Later Gaby danced in the Folies Bergeres, toured the U.S. with many a huge and fluttery fan, smiled at wisecracks about Manuel and died in Paris of a throat infection following influenza. The Amelia was sold to U.S. Oilman Henry Clay Pierce who renamed her the Yacona. In turn he disposed of her to the U.S. for use in the Philippines where...
...race. He is a half-brother of Easter Hero. He cost his owner, Mrs. M. A. Gemmell, $25,000. This was his first victory for her and carried a prize of $65,000. Mrs. Gemmell saw little of the race herself. She is small and was wedged into the huge crowd so tightly she could hardly turn her head...
...Yellow stone River. In 1915 he decided China needed railroads, so he went there, got the concessions, built the roads. During the War he bored a hole through the mountains of Washington to reach the spruce forests and provide building material for airplanes. He has just finished a huge dam in Vermont...
...sold out six times over!" In this palpable campaign broadside, shrewdly sold instead of given away, Mr. Lloyd George proposes to employ nearly 600,000 workers, "many within three months" on road building, house construction, telephone installation, "electrical developments," land drainage, reforestation, canal digging, and "in meeting the huge demand for British goods" which -the sixpence pamphlet confidently predicts-will result from "restoration of our trade relations with Russia...