Word: monstering
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...capability to handle the enormous civilization he has created is increased the organization is likely to annihilate him." Thus Raymond Fosdick in his address before the Institute of Arts and Sciences at Columbia expresses a fear which all intelligent moderns must eventually feel. No one who appreciates this monster which man in the role of a Frankenstein has created can remain apathetic. So from the agile minds of certain European intellectuals as well as from "old school" Americans have come their expressions of fear. But while these have beaten the air of a careless world with the fury of their...
...seems disproportionate to us, but this is necessary if their unwieldly bulk is to be moved at all ... A 60-ft. man would weigh 1000 times as much as a normal man, but his thigh bone would have its area increased by only 100 times . . . Consequently such an unfortunate monster would break his legs the moment he tried to move...
...Anti-Semitism spent itself in a monster parade of Hackenkreutzer, and became, for the nonce, quiescent. It was widely believed that the rioting and demonstrations were not really directed against the Zionists, but were merely attempts to embarrass the present Austrian Government with a view to effecting a coup d'etat in favor of Chancellor Seipel, Catholic priest, former Premier...
Jake Zobetser (villain) : "With his huge, rounded shoulders, fat neck and enormous head bent over the desk, and his thin legs that appeared inadequate to carry the bulk of his body, he looked not unlike some uncouth monster of a fairy tale...
...from colleagues of mine who were at Canton Christian College the afternoon of the shooting; I have, also, a copy of the British Consul-General's affidavit giving the facts as he witnessed them. There were four or five thousand armed, uniformed soldiers at the tail-end of a monster parade of students, teachers and laborers. These soldiers were principally "Whampoa cadets," graduates of the Military Academy. The Chinese call them "student soldiers," but they are finished and experienced fighters. Most of the casualties among the Chinese were from this number, though most unfortunately some peaceful and unarmed students were...