Word: mammothly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another class with a mammoth reading load, according to Elliott, was "The History of Modern Italy." Before the exam, one hardworking student asked the professor which books the students should concentrate...
...world, however, still seems largely unconcerned with the danger posed by large bodies hurtling in from space, despite the spectacle two years ago of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 riddling the planet Jupiter with mammoth explosions. It remains to be seen whether last week's record near-miss has changed any minds...
...born, after a succession of three girls, in Montreat, North Carolina, on July 14, 1952. He was heir presumptive to the world's most famous preacher, Billy Graham, a name already thundering out of the evangelical South, resounding through the nation and around the world in one mammoth revival meeting after another. A Catholic fan wrote the father: "I'll bet that your new boy will be a Catholic some day, maybe priest, bishop, or cardinal, possibly Pope." But little Franklin's father was already the Protestant Pope, a man who would soon be hailed by admirers as the greatest...
...perform space walk outside of a Russian space station. This morning's walk outside of Mir was the first NASA spacewalk outside a space station since 1974. Godwin and Clifford attached cosmic dust catchers, paint samples and other materials to Mir. This is a stepping stone to building a mammoth international space station starting at the end of next year. The project is expected to be completed early next century. The six- hour spacewalk had an element of danger as Atlantis was docked to Mir and could not immediately dash after Godwin or Clifford in the unlikely event that their...
...that promised to change dramatically last week when mammoth AT&T announced that it would offer its regular residential telephone customers--all 80 million of them--five hours of free access to the Internet each month, or unlimited access for $19.95 a month, on its newly announced Worldnet access service. Suddenly, the right flat rate and the right number of phone lines were in the same place, and the entire Internet-service industry seemed on the verge of a brutal shake-out. At week's end AOL's share price dropped 15%, from 53 7/8 to 45 3/4, while...