Word: mammoths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five decades; in Zug, Switzerland. Dornier designed the world's first metal airplane in 1911, built thousands of bombers and fighters in both world wars, and in recent years experimented with a series of novel vertical takeoff and landing craft. But his greatest fame still stems from the mammoth DO-X flying boat built in 1929. It had twelve engines, a wingspan of 157 ft. and a passenger capacity of 169. Uneconomic though it was, the DO-X could fly the Atlantic and was the ancestor of today's even bigger jumbo jets...
There are not many avenues open for us to express our political opposition and moral indignation to the war in Vietnam. To the mammoth protests of October and November, this month we hope to indicate our choice for life over death for rehabilitation over destruction by foregoing our own food and contributing the proceeds to life-giving and rebuilding activities...
...heyday, the style was simply called "modernist" or "Moderne." But Clothes Designer Lewis Winter, one of the style's leading collectors, makes a distinction between Deco and Moderne. From 1918 to 1925, when Paris held a mammoth International Exposition of Decorative Arts, the style was more Deco, which he defines as graceful, rococo and curvilinear. From 1925 until 1939, the look modified into Moderne, which was chunkier and more geometric, as in a silver tea service designed by Britain's Charles Boyton. In Winter's living room, a black and gold painted panel for a post-office...
Last Fall, for example, Ford predicted a mammoth $2.4 million deficit...
...Russians' profit from their splashy fair at Kuala Lumpur came chiefly in the form of experience. They crammed 2,000 exhibits into one building: textiles, semiprecious stones, machine tools, and mammoth red "Padi Harvesting Combines"-which are wheat combines converted for use in rice paddies. They also stocked shelves of books by Marx, Lenin and Engels but removed them after a government reminder that most are banned in Malaysia. "We're here to sell," said Dimitri V. Bekleshov, the gray-suited vice president of Vneshtorgreklama, the export agency's ad company. "Our tractors are better than...