Word: huges
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...always encouraged the DEFEAT of his own party in Hidalgo county. . . Will the Texas Tammany boys, supported by the illiterate, non-taxpaying Mexican voters, and their loyal Republican friend, Hon. R. B. Creager, be able to hold their jobs and thus continue to dictate the destiny of a huge and ever-increasing tax roll...
...cylinder with conic ends, air does not flow smoothly over it. It should have no straight surface lines or level planes as in the Los Angeles, "best product of the Zeppelin works" (Dr. Eckener). Building of a new Friedrichshafen hangar will be completed about Nov. , when construction of a huge, fattish dirigible will be begun. Imperfect, the Graf Zeppelin will never be put on a commercial line. It will be used as a training ship for dirigible crews, for excursions and sight-seeing trips...
...President Hoover last week sent a message to the Zionist Organization of America, under the auspices of which a huge Manhattan demonstration against Arab outrages in Palestine was held (see p. 26). Declared President Hoover: ". . . My profound sympathy . . . good citizens deplore. . . . Our government is deeply concerned ... the fine spirit shown by the British government. . . . American Jews . . . have demonstrated fine sentiment and ideals. . . . Out of these tragic events will come greater security and greater safeguards for the future under which the steady rehabilitation of Palestine as a true homeland will be even more assured. . . . The fine sympathy of the American people...
...story. When Jackson was the first U. S. President of the "common people" (1829-37), the fine ok southern mansion was the political centre of the land. Later it served its owner as a refuge from political storms. "Old Hickory" and his Rachel lie buried nearby under a huge magnolia. In 1856 his adopted son sold it to Tennessee for $48,000. Now it is valued at a million...
...Culion. To lepers isolated for life or until cured on Culion, sombre Philippine island, were shipped last week from Brooklyn a lot of huge cans containing comedies, tragedies, newsreels, 778.000 feet of the best films made in the U. S. last year. No leper critic records the reactions of Culion citizens, called "world's kindest audience," to the canned cargo. But once a year when the films, paid for by organized charity, arrive, the Culionites sing, set off fireworks...