Word: mammoths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Gordon Sproul (rhymes with "owl")-'13, president of the university since 1930. No Ph.D., he became university comptroller at 29, prexy at 38. Many scholars winced at this raising of administrative talent over learned distinction. But Sproul imagined and organized a great staff of scholars, an academic mammoth...
Lamar, whose eat-footed shadow boxing astounded conditioners all summer, likes his mammoth, 250-man 5:30 class. "The larger the class, the greater the feeling of accomplishment you get from leading them," he says. Noted for his jazzed-up cadence counting and melodramatic exhortations, he is impressed with the cooperation he gets. Upperclassmen, he feels, are improving as well as Freshman, 1300 of whom are being tested regularly by the Brouha step test to record the effects of the program...
Through three volumes totaling 2,230 pages Lanny has played Master of Ceremonies for a mammoth floorshow version of 20th-century history, and in the fourth he is still one of the most adroit and likable quick-change artists in the profession. He can beard Basil Zaharoff with tips from The Beyond, josh Hermann Goring, rip off a bit of Beethoven for "Adi" Schicklgruber, rescue a beautiful Social Democrat from "Naziland" and an intrepid young Briton from the Spanish Fascists. He can carom all over "this old continent" (Europe) in his high-powered roadster, keeping dates with the major crises...
...total expenditure of $27,189,370, the Project published enough written matter to fill seven 12 -ft. shelves in the library of the Department of the Interior. Even this mammoth collection is incomplete. Author Saxon, as executor, could draw up this inventory...
...heavy guns, not counting thousands of machine guns, mortars and planes. Shells were lobbed into the city almost daily; hardly a day or night was free of air raids. Destroyed early in the siege were warehouses packed with a three-year supply of food, hundreds of apartment houses, a mammoth modern library and scores of factories. Outside of Leningrad the Germans demolished the famous Palace of Peterhof, Russian symbol of the best in European...