Word: huges
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bigger chunks and huge blocks of cement covered the ruins of an eight story building on the corner which had just collapsed?causing all the havoc, burying alive six score workmen...
...mothers of the buried workmen arrived screaming, and had to be fought off to a distance by a second hastily assembled corps of police and soldiers. Several women, disheveled, broke through police lines and rushed among the ruins, calling to their buried sons or husbands, clawing and tugging at huge, immobile blocks of cement...
...sudden muffled roar in the Arbedo Valley. The tip of Monte Arbino, 9,000 feet above the level of the sea, was seen to quiver. One rock, then another, bounced and skidded down the mountain's side. Finally the whole peak slid clumsily into the surrounding valley. A huge cloud of dust spouted upward, for several days hung heavily over the scene of the avalanche...
...July, 1918, he crossed the ocean in a destroyer escorting a huge troop convoy. For two months he inspected all United States navy activities in the allied countries, as well as the Grand Fleet, the destroyer and sub-chaser forces, and the aviation and bombing stations. After visiting the allied front lines he returned to this country...
...Winkler (biographer of Hearst). On the next page was a remarkable photograph of a giant tortoise. Fannie Brice told her "own story" and some Indians were observed worshipping God-in-Nature on a mountain peak (via Underwood & Underwood photograph). Mrs. Stillman wrote on Paris fashions, not far from a huge photograph of herself. The U. S. institutions discussed-and apparently believed in-were "West Point-Its Idea" and "Broadway-from Pabst to Nedick." There was no discussion of the flag...