Word: monstering
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...building and loan associations were fearful lest the new law take away much of their business, a Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. was to be set up. This agency like Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. would guarantee building and loan deposits as bank deposits are guaranteed. To get this monster mechanism working would take $410,000,000 from the treasury...
...climbed up on the stump of a pine-tree with one of those monster-radishes in one hand and a lump of hard soldiers' bread in the other, and joked, between mouthfuls...
...University of Toronto, has been practicing at Callander for 26 years, is the district's medical officer and coroner. Obstetrics has always been a large part of his practice among the prolific French-Canadians. His youngest mother was 13, his oldest 63. Once he delivered a two-headed monster. One of his patients has borne 23 children, only one of whom has died, and that one, said Dr. Dafoe last week when he had an opportunity to relax in the wicker easy-chair in his library, "was dead at birth. It was one of twins. I remember...
...resemble the Ship of Zion, gathered 4,000 persons to hear their bishop's exhortations. They sang, shouted, wept, sometimes wriggled and danced in exuberant piety. This week the Church of God's convention was to end in a "Grand Climax Service, with the General Overseer and Monster Water Baptismal Service...
...Altman took the monster to Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History and laid it on the desk of Ichthyologist Eugene Willis Gudger. Dr. Gudger had never seen such a thing before but he is versed in old and curious lore, knew instantly what it was. It was, he told Mr. Altman, a "Jenny Haniver." Dr. Gudger photographed the thing, began a systematic collation of data on Jenny Hanivers, ancient and modern, which last week he published in the June Scientific Monthly...