Word: huges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three gallant undergraduates saved both the life of an aged woman and the remains of a ramshackle dwelling in a huge fire that menaced the safety of the residents of the peaceful hamlet of Florence, Massachusetts...
...Huge whirling screens to intercept bombs aimed at battleships or buildings, toss the bombs aside by centrifugal force...
...Huge electromagnets to draw submarines to the side of a battleship, where the submarine's crew would be electrocuted by an electric current sent through the hull...
...huge beam of "black light" to black out the moon, thus deny moonlight to nocturnal air raiders...
...Mihaïl, who died of melancholia; Elizabeth, the hard-drinking, nominally virgin queen whose beer-barrel figure enabled her to pass off her pregnancies as "indigestion"; infantile, impotent Peter III and insane Paul, "as ugly and misshapen as an abortion," both hideously murdered; Nicholas II's hard, huge, colorless papa; Nicholas himself, "the most pitiful in Russian History," a densely obstinate little man who developed, under the indignities of his jailers, an almost heavenly meekness. Romanovia...