Word: mammoth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...served 53,000,000 meals annually throughout the U. S.* Died. Guy Eastman Tripp, 62, since 1912 Chairman of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.; in Manhattan; from complications following an intestinal operation. He recently attracted widespread interest by his plan for the electrification of the entire country under one mammoth system for all railroads, street cars, factories, farms and houses. Died. Jerome Klapka Jerome, 68, famed author and humorist; at Northampton, England; of a cerebral hemorrhage. He was progressively, from 14 years on, office clerk, actor, author, editor; wrote Three Men in a Boat, Passing of the Third Floor Back...
...under unified control, a $250,000,000 entertainment trust supplying all its own celluloid features from the merged studios of First National, Pathe and Director DeMille, with the Producer's Distributing Corp. to determine when and where who shall laugh or weep at what. Scenting the arrival of mammoth theatres, the Fox Film Corp. also has plans afoot-30 first-run theatres, to cost five to twelve millions each and seat four or five thousand people each, with stores and office buildings adjoining, in major U. S. cities...
...CRIMSON has a fighting team with its back to the wall and both feet squarely on the ground," were the electrifying words uttered by Coach R.H. Field '26, of the Cambridge Fourth Estate, at the mammoth mass meeting which rocked the rafters of the CRIMSON sanctum last night. The teeming crowd that had gathered to give its last full measure of support to the nine men who seek to stave off Princetonian victory today, reached a high pitch of vociferous enthusiasm, as these words of determined confidence rang out through the jammed room. Every inch of available floor space...
...Dunn will attempt to analyze whale pituitaries into their constituent elements to discover what agency or force causes whale tissue to assume such prodigious proportions, perhaps what agency or force is the source of all animal structure and life. Possible "usefulness": a better understanding of how to produce mammoth food fish, poultry, circus freaks...
...only has Premier Baldwin kept from falling between the two stools of his party (Moderate-Conservative, and Tory), but his old fashioned brier pipe has become so much a part of the British scene that last week the King-Emperor remarked, on seeing a mammoth pipe exhibited as an advertisement, "They ought to give it to Baldwin...