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...modern city is no older than the 40 years which have elapsed since the earthquake. Like its pre-1906 buildings, most of its pre-1906 families have disappeared, although there are still Crockers and a sprinkling of Sutros and Spreckels around. The exclusive and monstrous Pacific Union Club, once the home of Bonanza King James Flood, is still a rendezvous of the wealthy, but Nob Hill is no longer the center of the social whirl. The center now is the Burlingame Country Club, outside of town...
Economic Stabilizer Bowles called the bill "an outright fraud . . . a monstrous thing" and promised to ask for a presidential veto if the bill passed in its present state. C.I.O. President Philip Murray sounded an ominous warning of new outbreaks of labor unrest...
...sharp, un-fuzzed edges. When the smallest model using only two watts of current was held behind a color film the size of a postage stamp, it projected a clear, sharp "shadow picture" as big as a telephone book. When used in an ordinary photographic enlarger, it made monstrous enlargements of startling clarity...
...TIME'S Medicine Editor, who misinterpreted American Druggist's editorial, a monstrous dose of ipecac. Pharmacy has probably been no more worried than other professions whose practitioners and students went off to war when practice was expanding...
Astronomer Coles was taking few chances: sunspots are monstrous hurricanes in the sun's white-hot atmosphere. From sunspots, or near them,, come powerful blasts of ultraviolet rays and streams of electrons. Both rays and electrons affect earth's radios, chiefly by altering the ionization of the outermost atmosphere...