Word: huges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cards, the citizens of Singapore thought, that three Yankee cruisers had come 4,500 miles just to watch a squad of British officials break the ribbon stretched across the entrance to the island's huge new naval dockyard. Singapore and Britons the world over preferred to believe they were there to show Japan that at least two Western nations vitally interested in the Pacific were reaching the end of their patience with Japanese aggression in the Far East, to hint gravely that in the event of a general war in the Pacific the navies of Britain...
...little finalists (all, except Spicypiece, American-bred-a new record for Westminster shows) romped into the ring, 15,000 spectators began all together nominating their choices to their neighbors. Judge Bates looked first at Rumpelstilskin, the poodle. He seemed a little frightened by the formidable little Pekingese, over which huge John Royce fluttered with a hairbrush. He paused long by white Spicy-piece who stood in marble stillness. He ran his fingers through the collie's long coat. He carefully examined the teeth, fore & hindquarters, neck, back and feathers of the setter pup, Daro of Maridor...
...week. If an investor fails to follow up with cash, he is promptly put on the Confidential Black List which all promoters keep in common. One establishment, Littlewood's of Liverpool, has received so many pennies and pounds that it has grown from a backroom office to four huge buildings with 5,000 employes...
Meanwhile, the huge floe on which the camp stood had broken off from the polar ice pack, was drifting on a zigzag southward course which veered somewhat to the west (see map), in currents which had been charted previously but whose speed had been underestimated. Some days the drift was six or seven miles. As it entered warmer water, the floe began to break up. Last fortnight a hurricane reduced it to 200 yards by 300. Last week it was down to 50 yards by 70. When the part of the floe on which their tent stood was submerged...
W1111am Humble Eric Ward, 3rd Earl of Dudley, is a spruce widower of 44 who sports a mustache arid has a huge fortune founded upon the British iron and steel industry. Fourteen years ago the Earl of Dudley arrived in the U. S. as equerry to the Prince of Wales. Two years ago the Earl visited the U. S. in a futile attempt to get the U. S. steel industry to join the European Steel Cartel. Last week the Earl of Dudley once more sailed into New York Harbor on the same errand...