Word: mammoth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With Russia planning to build a fleet of mammoth airplanes, with Germany negotiating to be allowed to increase the size and power of her force, and with France already in possession of three times as many warrior airplanes as Great Britain possesses in her whole empire, John Bull may well be excused for feeling some apprehension. He suffered some from Zeppelin raids in the great war, and now he intends to play safe. It is rather to his credit that he has not accepted a request made by Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of Aerial Navigation, for the building...
...Reinhardt has arrived in America to discuss with Morris Gest and Otto H. Kahn the production of The Miracle in Madison Square Garden next fall. He will remain in New York two weeks perfecting plans for this mammoth production, which has a cast of 2,000 persons, and then re-turn to Germany for the summer to assemble his staff of artists for the six productions he will make under Mr. Gest's management next year, and to produce in Berlin Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape and Zoe Akins' Papa...
...statuette, thought to be 60,000 years old, is being exhibited in Paris. It is a woman's figure carved in the stone age from the tusk of a mammoth, and was discovered in a grotto at Lexpugne, Haut-Garonne, France, by M. de Saint-Pelier...
Recent reports of unrecorded sea-monsters are more common than one would suppose. A creature seen off Llandudno, like a long, undulating water-snake on mammoth scale, was convincing to the eyes of many beholders. Stories of a similar monster were so current along the American coasts during the last century that the hypothetical beast won the soubriquet of "American Sea-Serpent". Only last year, the repeated tales from South America of a "prehistoric" reptile sporting in the waters of a lake in the Andes, set zoologists agog and even stimulated a searching-party, which has not yet made...
...construction of the new building as to justify the symbolism involved. In order that the gift shall be truly representative of the students of American colleges and universities, a large proportion of their number must be included in the list of donors to be kept in a mammoth volume among the records of the new library...