Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Through San Diego, Santa Ana, Englewood, Long Beach, motored the Willkie caravan, through huge turnouts of cheering people. Here & there high-school children bronx-cheered or shouted "Hooray for Roosevelt!" One or two of them threw tomatoes, one a wild pitch above the grinning candidate's head...
Other bolters-of-the-week: Walter N. Rothschild, director of Abraham & Straus, huge Brooklyn department store; the Oregon Journal, traditionally Democratic Portland paper; Bess Streeter Aldrich, best-selling novelist and Hollywood scenarist; former Democratic Governor Charles H. Martin of Oregon, former Democratic Governor William A. Comstock of Michigan, Roman Catholic Bishop Joseph Schrembs of Cleveland...
...these looked like niggardly bribes. But privates, corporals, sergeants already in the Army welcomed a move to bring their pay nearer par with the long-favored Navy's. And the increases reminded U. S. taxpayers that, after their new Army is recruited, they will have to pony up huge annual sums for military "housekeeping" expenses...
Molengraaff River. Carved in the sea floor off the Hudson, Delaware and Congo Rivers are huge canyons whose beds lie 7,500 to 10,000 ft. below sea level. How were they formed? Possibly by ancient rivers, when the seas were far below their present level. Geologists know that during the Ice Age, which began to recede some 20,000 years ago, the ocean level was lower than it is now, because great masses of water were locked up in the land glaciers. But the continents could hardly have stored water masses tremendous enough to have raised the sea level...
Edward Pols has set out a huge canvas for himself in "Porphyro and the Beadsman," but it reads as clumsily as the title itself. Pols, naturally enough for a Harvard student, lacks the maturity to put in black and white the mental conflict between a priest, grown dubious of his calling, and his former pupil who struggles to save him and "fill him with his own exulting strength...