Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first Police Day speaker had barely begun when an unexpected incident occurred. From the gauntly Gothic cathedral, past the huge monument of John Huss at the stake, rolled organ music. Policemen soon silenced the inappropriate sound, and the celebration continued. But throughout the world, people with an ear for the rhythm of history knew that what happened in Prague last week had happened before and would, quite possibly, be repeated in capital after capital...
Among the tapestries were some of the oldest in existence: 14th Century illustrations of the Apocalypse which reproduced, on a huge scale, the red and blue glow of medieval illuminations. They had originally been woven to keep out drafts in the castle at Angers...
...Picture & Make-Up Editor Robert Boyd. When the stories are checked they are ready for the teletypesetters. Machines in TIME'S New York office wire the copy simultaneously to the Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles printing plants. Boyd and his assistants in New York paste up proofs on huge sheets, tell editors, late on Monday night, where lines must be added or killed to make pages...
...present, for the purposes of keeping tins brief, let me state just these points: 1) Monnett B. Davis, American Consul at Shanghai, fears the situation to be so dark that there exists in China a fuse leading to a huge bomb, and that this fuse is burning rapidly, and only very sensational action can cut it and prevent the bomb from blowing up in our faces; 2) Mr. Tsuyee Pel; Governor of the Central Bank (China's official currency), felt the situation so dark a year ago that he resigned his post to devote his time to planning...
Compared with the huge pile of Gothic above it, the Psychology Department's home is as out of place as a television set in a monastery. Bright tile floors, fluorescent lighting, carved woodwork, and brick glass inlays give an aura of ultra-modernism that outdistances anything else in the University...