Word: monstrously
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Switzerland reported successful tests with the world's most monstrous electric locomotive-a train-hauler driven by six motors developing 4,500 horsepower. Over 20 meters long (65 ft.), weighing 283,350 Ibs., is can be driven by one man and will hurtle along at 100 miles an hour with a loaded passenger train in tow. Soon it will be in service on the International Electric Line, racing over the Alps to Berne; plunging through the Simplon tunnel into Italy...
...explanation of this change of face and Babbitt reasoning may charitably be sought in the Editor's preoccupation by Finals: Or perhaps he is stirred by an underlying desire for "humanizing the military profession": but has it ever occurred to him that there Jurks a monstrous danger in de-humanizing the vast majority who do not belong to the profession? C. L. Lundin...
Rainclouds swaddled the low countries along the North Sea, whipped and harried by a southwest wind, as 14 monstrous rubber bubbles sailed aloft from an aviation field near Antwerp and drifted off toward the Dutch frontier. Night fell before all the bubbles had come again to earth. Dawn found one of them still coasting northeast over the boggy islands and bays of Denmark, over the fat fields of southern Sweden. Not until the wind, with its sleet and snow-squalls, threatened to drive this bubble on out over the Baltic Sea beyond Solvesborg on Hano Bay, did it descend. Then...
Parents of youngsters with the mechanical bent last week fumed and ejaculated. "Monstrous!" cried the father of a clever boy named Wilbur. "This is monstrous! Encouraging kids like Wilbur to try flying next . . . making them dissatisfied with automobiles, which are dangerous enough, goodness knows. This Society will have them running away from home, bumming around flying fields, hooking rides on the mail planes . . . reckless bravado . . . inexperienced . . . premature ascent . . . broken necks . . . weeping families ... a shameful offer . . . monstrous...
...Angeles. Slowly, cautiously, like the groundhog in February, the great Los Angeles thrust her monstrous grey stern-snout out of the hangar at Lakehurst, N. J. Sniffs of the wind augured well for several days aloft. The motors roared and rumbled, the huge celestial torpedo pushed up for her first extended trip since last July. Heading southeast, Captain George W. Steele Jr. guided her out over Barnegat Bay, then down to Atlantic City and to Cape May through bumpy air seas. Over Barnegat Lighthouse some internal wires had snapped; a waterline had burst, from one of the steam-condensers...