Word: mammoth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doubt fewer of those mammoth physical specimens from prairie farms report to Mr. Stagg as raw football candidates than in the days of Dink Stover, but the caustic critic points out that most of these demi-gods were muscle-bound, and that they dissipated in saloons and buggies, whereas the modern youth has only the ice cream parlor and the harmless Ford. Moreover, these huge giants are far too large to fit into the modern scheme of things, subway turnstiles, for example...
Upon Morningside Heights, on the Island of Manhattan, is slowly arising a mammoth monument Gloriae Dei?the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (TIME, July...
...books; and, I think, no chair is so much wanted." Anyone who has penetrated the barriers and has seen the stacks upon stacks of volumes in Widener, and has, like Emerson, computed the hours it would take him to read the books in even one corner of that mammoth collection will recognize the present truth of this half-century old observation. In other matters Emerson often had a prophetic insight. So far the remedy he suggested for an overdose of libraries has not been used, but there is no reason why in this case, too, he cannot he heralded...
...When you come to London, don't miss seeing how the mammoth weekly issue of JOHN BULL is produced within 48 hours and distributed throughout the length and breadth of the Land...
...movement among farmers to own country grain elevators cooperatively dates back many years. Now it has advanced upon the mammoth Chicago grain elevator companies also. The American Farm Bureau has under consideration a plan to take over five large Chicago grain firms-Armour Grain Co., Rosenbaum Grain Corp., Bartlett, Frazier & Co., Rosenbaum Brothers, J. C. Shaffer & Co.?which handle over a billion dollars cash grain transactions annually. In addition, some 5,000 small cooperative elevators will under the same plan be acquired. Curiously enough, the attitude of the five big Chicago firms is quite friendly, although they...