Word: copious
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...until agitated doctors certified that several hunger-striking patients were on the verge of Death, did the Christ Child's director yield. Hereafter the stubborn Polish patients will eat their accustomed bread, soup and potatoes (with occasional meat), four times a day in copious servings...
...heroes, vaunts the excellences of Kentucky farmlife, mourns the mortality of Poet Stuart's love affairs and friends. No book to read through at a sitting, it will prove to the plainest reader that, in Poet Van Doren's words, Stuart is "a rare poet for these times . . . both copious and comprehensible." Some samples of his comprehensible copiosities: Where are the friends of youth I miss ? Elmer and Bert, Oscar, and Jim and John; . . . And where are Lizzie, Lute, and Jack and Mack! They, too, have gone and they will not come back...
...which he regarded as a cross-section of a great cylinder hanging from the heavens. A generation later Hecataeus wrote Periodos, the first known book of geography. Exploration as a science seems to have been set on foot in the Fifth Century by Herodotus, "Father of History," who left copious travel memoirs and gave the Atlantic Ocean its name...
...information concerning the whereabouts of Handsome Daniel II, is both obscure and veiled by equivocal voices. He is here, he is there, he is everywhere--and his absconders are not to be found. News dispatches circulate the report that all Yale bewails the loss of her mascot, and that copious tears flow from the eyes of undergraduates as they reenter their Gothic cloisters empty of hand. No single student at Yale will rest peacefully until the pup is returned...
...City News legmen, "Boss"' Corrigan, who started as an office boy, rarely wrote a story in his 20 years. He gathers his data from the complaint room, from the little Press table in the court room, from innumerable policemen, lawyers, court attendants, judges of his acquaintance. He makes copious notes, descends to his dungeon desk and telephones his office. Far downtown near Park Row one of four lightning-fast rewrite men takes Reporter Corrigan's tale, whips it into a precise, minutely detailed, colorless but accurate story. Page by page it is teletyped to the newspaper offices where...