Word: mammoths
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Northern Eden? Nahanni is Indian for "people over there, far away." The Indians shun the place for its mammoth grizzlies and the evil spirits wailing in its deep canyons. Of the hunters and prospectors who have gone in, 13 have not returned. Around them most of the tall tales have sprung...
Fortnight ago, eccentric Millionaire-Engineer Davis revealed his version of a fey project for a Dover war memorial pro posed last summer (TIME, July 29). Davis' idea: an 80-foot statue of Winston Churchill holding a mammoth cigar over his head like the Statue of Liberty torch, mounted on a 100-foot-high pedestal bearing an inscription, "Never was so much owed by so many to one man," which thoroughly squeezed the juice from a great Churchillism. A model (see cut) was prepared by a New Hampshire sculptor, Viggo Brandt-Erickson. Davis offered his idea to the mayors...
Architecturally, unlike the long sequence that led from Harvard Hall to the Houses on the river and produced such works along the way as Memorial Hall and the Indoor Athletic Building, Yale stands almost entirely as the result of a mammoth 100-year plan laid down in 1924 to promote unanimity of design...
...Like a mammoth jack-in-the-box, the U.S. toy industry has bounced up high and merrily in its first full postwar year. Before this Christmas has come & gone, retailers expect to sell a record-shattering $250,000,000 worth of toys...
Sponsoring a mammoth masquerade ball Thursday night, the Hotel Commander offers College students a bevy of real live pumpkins to adorn their broomsticks in celebration of Halloween...