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Word: huges (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when distributed through a disjointed group of very conceivably irresponsible countries, 300 miles distant the guns and planes can be both inflammatory and an efficient block to negotiation. It is pretty shortsighted to entirely rule out possible negotiations designed to case Russian and American tension. If we deposit a huge mass of uncontrolled arms in Europe it would do probably do exactly this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Arms for Europe | 5/4/1949 | See Source »

Assistant Professor Paul M. Doty works on the biggest molecules of them all, proteins--huge, rambling networks that often contain over 50,000 atoms. Doty studies how they react and interact, and his experiments lead close to the question of the nature of life...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: University's Chemists Try Mustard Gas to Wipe Out Cancer Growths | 5/4/1949 | See Source »

Reports from the North already indicate dissatisfaction with the Communists' program. Lacking personnel of their own, they have had to retain old officials and management. They have also restricted workers' demands to keep production from collapsing altogether. Feeding huge cities, such as Shanghai, without the rice shipments supplied by the U. S. may well upset the agrarian program, until now the Reds' best advertisement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lesson From China | 5/3/1949 | See Source »

...tied ourselves together with ropes," Dodge related. "All of us wore ico creepers on our shoes to prevent slipping. We had to watch a huge hunk of ice directly overhead for fear it might crash down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schiller's Body Recovered from Deep Crevasse | 5/3/1949 | See Source »

Muscovites stood by disconsolately as their beloved cathedral with its huge golden cupola was razed to the ground. Workmen dug a gigantic pit, began to sink piles. Then suddenly they found that the ground was unsuitable, and suspended operations. That was some 15 years ago, and last week the gaping pit was still there. No matter what their press told them, Muscovites presumably still knew the difference between a skyscraper and a hole in the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Hole in the Ground | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

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