Word: huges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discovered also in France, Belgium, Spain, Moravia, Croatia, Palestine, on the island of Jersey in the British Channel, on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean. This oldtimer persisted for a long but chronologically vague period, perhaps 150,000, perhaps 40,000 years ago. With his low-vaulted skull, huge eye-sockets and a short, broad nose, Neanderthal Man was no beauty, but he had just as big a brain and far better teeth than men of today. He made good tools, ceremoniously buried his dead, found shelter by intrepidly evicting bears from their caves. Near the close...
...Chicago's huge Palmer House one day last fortnight, 50 businessmen attending the annual convention of their trade association, opened the meeting by chanting in unison: WHERE'S THIS YEAR'S PECK OF PICKLED PEPPERS PETER PIPER PICKED? There was not a man present that could not reel off Peter Piper without a bobble, and older hands did not boggle Theophilus the thistle-sifter. But full as they were of percussive alliteration they were no mere funsters. They were members of the 46-year-old National Pickle Packers Association representing 85% of an industry which has done...
...College of Education at Southwestern Louisiana Institute at Lafayette when Huey snatched him to Baton Rouge. Tall, bald, Dr. Smith shaped into an ideal academic puppet. Huey began to spend $13,500,000 on L. S. U. for sumptuous buildings, a monster swimming pool, "professional" footballers, a huge Medical Center in New Orleans. Contractors, politicians and public jobsters fattened, and the student body jumped from 2,100 to 8,550. Midway in this adventure into education, Huey announced: "If there's any title I'm proud of, it's Chief Thief...
...nature has been bountiful beyond New Deal rules and a large crop of 2,518,000,000 bushels is forecast. Thus, while pigs in increasing numbers eat corn, corn (currently selling in Chicago at slightly more than 50? per bu.) will likely become a market glut, too, with a huge carry-over into 1940. July futures closed last week...
...further proof of their inability to lower prices until huge new audiences are found, publishers point to Modern Age Books, which two years ago set out to publish paperbound original editions at 35? to 50?. Backed by the Richard Storrs Childs fortune, Modern Age advertised heavily, cut costs by using the Rumford Press between printings of Reader's Digest, set up elaborate distribution machinery. Its losses the first year (attributed in part to inexperience) were reported at around $500,000. Since then Modern Age prices have risen nearer the $1 level...