Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month, for instance, Kahn and some 40 associates hooked up with Duke University for a clairvoyance experiment. A huge chart of symbols was tacked up at 5 p.m. every day in Durham, North Carolina, and starting at 5 p.m. the Harvard crew tried to reproduce the symbols on post cards...
...Lodge Plan would correct the two major evils of the present system. Large states now have exaggerated importance in an election, since in these states a difference of a few thousand votes can shift huge stacks of electoral votes from one column to the other. Twice since the Civil War this has meant that the man with a majority of popular votes has lost the election. Tilden beat Hayes by over 200,000 votes in 1876; yet he lost. Cleveland beat Harrison by over 100,000 votes in 1888; yet he lost. And in the 1948 election a few more...
...Here in this huge, dark, steaming slum, hundreds of thousands of Negroes are herded together like cattle, most of them with nothing to eat and nothing to do. All the senses and imagination and sensibilities and emotions and sorrows and desires and hopes and ideas of a race with vivid feelings and deep emotional reactions are forced in upon themselves, bound inward by an iron ring of frustration: the prejudice that hems them in with its four insurmountable walls. In this huge cauldron, inestimable natural gifts, wisdom, love, music, science, poetry are stamped down and left to boil with...
Immediately hailed as the literary discovery of the century, the papers contained huge chunks of Boswell's journal, and hundreds of letters-enough unpublished material to fill 18 thick volumes. As the years passed, the castle continued its yield: Johnson's diary turned up in the strong room, and the entire manuscript of The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides was discovered in an old croquet...
From his plane window 20 miles off, Radiological Monitor Bradley saw the "huge column of clouds, dense, white, boiling up through the strato-cumulus." The next move in Operation Crossroads was his; and a few minutes later he and his plane were flying toward Bikini Atoll and the "evil mushrooming" column...