Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...grandstand; a circular bar (with free hors d'oeuvres at 4 o'clock sharp) overlooking San Francisco Bay; "elephant trains," salvaged from the Exposition's dismantled Treasure Island, to transport latecomers from the far end of the vast parking area. Instead of tractors to haul the huge starting gate around, California's latest track sports 16 beautifully matched, blue-ribbon Percherons (eight greys, eight blacks)-undefeated at California horse shows for the past two years. "There'll be a horse show as well as horse races every day at Golden Gate Park," hawked Manager Madigan...
...Cambridge University's famed Cavendish Laboratory, Peter Kapitza had done such astonishing work on magnetism and low temperatures that they built a special laboratory for him. By building up and suddenly short-circuiting huge accumulations of electricity through a set of coils, Kapitza produced magnetic fields five times more powerful than any before...
Meanwhile the immediate cost of Structural Newness began to come clear. For fiscal 1941-42 Tokyo experts foresaw the greatest of Japan's many huge budgets, calling for more than ten billion yen-five billions for war purposes alone-and requiring more than six billions of new borrowing. Such a budget would be greater than Japan's entire funded debt in 1937 when the Sino-Japanese war started...
Just before World War II, Rene Huyghe, head of the Louvre's department of painting, gathered together a huge exhibition of the art of the French Republic, from David to Picasso. Director Huyghe sent his exhibition to South America. Bushy-eyebrowed, German-born Walter Heil of San Francisco's M. H. De Young Memorial Museum heard about it, decided...
...This whopping project was run by tiny, greenish-eyed Hallie Flanagan, head of Vassar College's Experimental Theatre. Last week Hallie Flanagan published an ardent, lively history of Federal Theatre, Arena (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3), winding up with a blast at the politicos who finally packed the whole huge show off to the storehouse...