Word: monsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days before the committee was scheduled to resume hearings, Hughes announced that the plane was ready for water taxiing tests. He said he did not plan to fly it, but invited the committee members to attend anyway. None accepted. Hughes went ahead and launched the 200-ton, eight-engined monster with its wingspread (320 ft.) as wide as a city block, and tail (80 ft.) as tall as an eight-story building. With Hughes at the controls, the Hercules was towed out into California's Long Beach Harbor. Coast Guard vessels cleared the course. The big plane...
...Yale team was no juggernaut, no monster--just an eleven that without its number one runner and its best pass receiver (end Jack Roderick) looked to have mastered every part of the game and to know it. The team that beats them will have to be either that juggernaut or else the possessor of a bagful of the newest and sweetest gridiron tricks on this side of the Swanee...
Since a complete list of those men eligible for make-up exams reaches the Dean's Office by July, an acceptable plan should not grind to a standstill in the monster gears of University Hall. Technical difficulties such as allotting classrooms, giving students adequate time for study, and obtaining examinations from instructors are admittedly surmountable. Once the pressing need and desire for a more suitable system becomes evident, a revised examination schedule seems easily attainable. The life of an anachronism does not necessarily begin at forty...
This explanation should satisfy in large part the people who view the H. A. A. as a grasping, inefficient monster. Since 1942 and the decline of Crimson football teams during the war, the Association's principle source of income has been drastically cut in the face of mounting expense. These expenses include travel, salaries, equipment, laundry, stadium and other repairs, and food for hungry athletes...
...battled the black, doughnut-shaped monster for more than two hours. . . . Winds of 140-mile-an-hour velocity slammed us once to within 250 feet of the churning seas. The pilot and copilot worked feverishly to pull out, but it was like trying to swim up a waterfall...