Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feels that it was meant by destiny to rule the world will inevitably be destroyed . . . The Anglo-Saxons are in serious danger of taking just that step." Optimistically, Wallace added that he hoped "we may all soon meet in Moscow." At a $10-a-plate dinner, backed by a huge "antiwar" mural by Masses & Mainstream Cartoonist William Cropper, stout, bearded Charles Stewart, public-relations man for the Churchman, took up a collection. He raised close to $20,000 from the 1,900 diners, with the exhortation: "This meeting is only a beginning...
Wedding Presents. B. H. &G. is the major moneymaker of Des Moines's huge Meredith Publishing Co., a family-owned concern which during its last fiscal year netted $2,862,276. Among the Meredith publications: Successful Farming (circ. 1,200,000), beamed at prosperous Midwest farm families, and the Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book, which has sold 3,000,000 copies (87,000 so far this year). Last week the sprawling Meredith plant along the banks of the Raccoon River was spreading out again. It needed more space to house its peak staff (1,446) and five...
...hind legs. His skin is greenish white, like that of an aquatic animal. Only his hands and face are darker, the sun having burnt them. His baby shoulders, narrow and round, flow without angles into feminine arms and end in marvelous hands, small and of delicate design ... His huge stomach, drawn tight and smooth as a sphere, rests on strong legs . . . that end in large feet pointing outward in an obtuse angle as if to take in all the earth ... He sleeps in a fetal position and when awake moves with elegant slowness as if he lived in liquid . . . Women...
...audience in San Francisco's huge, hangarlike Civic Auditorium was in fine fettle. Even Master of Ceremonies John Charles Thomas couldn't resist getting into the act. "I'm glad to see such a crowd," he roared. "Word must have got around that I won't sing tonight...
...huge companies have lost their "personalities," Ford complained, and their millions of workers do not feel the "stimulation of the contest that excites" management. Bringing workers and consumers into greater sympathy with them is the large corporations' hardest job, Ford stated...