Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beneath a huge mural showing the temptation of Adam by Eve, tall, husky Dr. Ralph Bunche, acting U.N. mediator for Palestine, sat impassively at the head of the table, with a cigarette dangling, as usual, from his lips. Bushy-haired Dr. Walter Eytan of Israel's Foreign Office smoked a pipe. Both of the colonels from Egypt puffed cigarettes...
This is the second time this season that the two teams have met. Last month, in a game in Philadelphia, Penn built up a huge half-time lead and then staved off a late Harvard rally...
...room "Chasa Mengelberg," there is a huge library and a piano, but no running water, electricity or radio. Until a TIME correspondent visited him last week, he did not know that two German musicians, accused but cleared of collaborating -Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler and Pianist Walter Gieseking-had been forced to cancel U.S. performances* after stormy protests...
High spot of the show were twelve of the 16 famous drawings of imaginary carceri" (prisons). Tiny tattered figures cowered beneath enormous vaults and arches; huge spiked wheels ground inexorably; stairs spiraled up the dank walls to nowhere. In a world where nightmare prisons and melancholy ruins were once more an appalling reality, Piranesi's treatment of them hit as hard as ever...
...trusts had milked other cor porations, by buying up control and paying out huge dividends. Example: in July 1948, Textron's "Sixty Trust" bought up the stock of the Cleveland Pneumatic Tool Co. for $6,825,000, then paid itself $4,500,000 in dividends...