Word: mammoths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past few years the Council has followed a policy of contributing $300 each year to the Smoker Committee to enable them to bring "name" entertainers on from New York to give the Freshmen a mammoth blowout early...
...first two volumes of his mammoth Life of Richard Wagner, scholarly Biographer Ernest Newman, musicritic of the London Sunday Times, viewed the Geyer issue from a safe perch on the fence. In the third volume, published this week (Knopf; $5), Mr. Newman let himself carefully down on the non-Aryan side. Fundamental premise: Geyer was a lodger in the household of Police Actuary Carl Friedrich Wagner in Leipzig; there is no evidence that he was not there in the late summer of 1812, when Johanna Rosina Wagner conceived the child who was to be called Richard. New evidence...
...knowledge, no taste for fun or marriage, when she turns up at half-completed Midwestern University for its first session. Graduated with honors she gets a job teaching freshman English, stays on at Midwestern for 51 years while presidents come and go and the little prairie college becomes a mammoth institution...
...Architect Thomas S. Tait as Director of Standardization, he last week submitted a reconstruction plan of vast perspective to the Cabinet. In it he recommended that such Gordian knots as land-tenure complexities and conflicting powers of local authorities be resolutely slashed, that reconstruction be planned on a mammoth scale with decentralized industry, new housing arrangements and social amenities for workers, highway planning, and reapportionment of land on the principle that all land of whatever category must be used for the communities' benefit...
...chairman of Associated Newspapers, Ltd., turned the management of his properties over to young Esmond. Three years ago he gave up business completely. Last spring the man who took Northcliffe's place as Britain's Press Peer No. 1-gnomelike little Baron Beaverbrook, publisher of the mammoth London Daily Express, Minister of Aircraft Production-took Rothermere out of retirement, sent him to Canada and the U. S. on a special war mission. Harold Harmsworth was still rich, but old and tired. Month ago he went to Bermuda for a rest. His granddaughter was with him when he died...