Word: huges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Foreign Secretary, not only turned the offer down, but later, at Geneva, argued for "realism" and "flexibility" in applying the League of Nations Covenant against Japan. What the British then hoped was that the Japanese would turn northward from Manchuria and clash with the Soviet Union, leaving their huge investments in China (said to be worth $1,410,000,000) alone. Instead the Japanese marched southward, and last week Britain's diplomatic chickens of 1932 had come home to roost. Small comfort it was to the British that outside their Tientsin Concession the Japanese military...
Last week a Montmartre-like mob of about 200 gay students gathered in Grant Park, just north of the institute, around a huge clownlike dummy in rompers, silk stockings and a Victorian, plumed hat. Young Daniel Catton Rich, director of the institute, ran over to plead with them to disperse, and so did popular Dean Norman Rice. But suddenly four ringleaders in black hoods hoisted the effigy to their shoulders, shouted "Let's go!" About half the crowd followed, chanting lugubriously, carrying signs which read: NERVOUS HYSTERIA IS NOT ART CRITICISM; SEND E. JEWETT TO ART SCHOOL; JEWETT...
...Brooklyn (coeducational) is one of New York City's four huge municipal colleges. The others: City College (for men), Hunter (for women), Queens (co-educational...
...start a bunkless college, Rice and his followers went to the place where the word came from-North Carolina's Buncombe County. There, on a mountainside near the village of Black Mountain, they rented for the college year a Y. M. C. A. summer-conference hotel, a huge white-columned building with a magnificent view of the Craggy Mountains across the Swannanoa Valley. First year, Black Mountain's teachers drew no pay. To help support the college, teachers and students ran a farm, did their own housework (except cooking and dishwashing...
...Woodward Iron Co.'s plant near Birmingham, Ala., a huge centrifugal refrigerating machine is being installed alongside a giant dehumidifier cased in concrete. This installation, first of its kind, is being hooked up, not to any building but to Woodward's fiery blast furnaces where the 57-year-old company can turn out enough iron (annual capacity 450,000 tons) to make it the second largest Southern merchant producer ("merchants" produce pig iron for sale to foundries, mills...