Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...insisting that at least fifteen years, rather than five years, would be required to settle the foundations of such an enterprise, and that after the first experimental period much larger financial support would be required. Making light of difficulties he declared his confidence without reservations. "It will fill a great need, he said, "and we may trust, therefore, that it will be amply provided...
...independent faculty, with an organization like that of the other professional schools of the university. But the steady increase in numbers of students brought new and pressing problems, which, when Dean Donham took over the leadership, had become formidable. The growth of the institution demanded urgently a great expansion in physical and personnel equipment. These serious difficulties have been overcome with remarkable skill and with daring energy. The planning vision of Dean Donham and the magnificent generosity of Mr. Baker have raised an edifice surpassing the dreams of those who assisted in its modest beginning. Indeed, to an outside observer...
...gymnasium near at hand providing vastly increased facilities for undergraduate indoor sports, a backward glance draws attention to the disposition of the old Hemenway gymnasium. For although this building has been obviously inadequate to the demand, there are numerous opportunities for use, of primary interest to the great body of graduate students, whose heritage in part it will soon become...
Like the wreck of the Titanic, the crash of Transcontinental Air Transport's City of Sau Francisco in New Mexico last week was relatively one of the world's great commercial disasters. It was the first bad one on a U. S. Trans- continental air line. The great trimotored Ford with five passengers and crew of three flew west from Albuquerque, N. Mex., into an electrical storm and oblivion...
With such intimate revelations, Col. Theodore Roosevelt III (the late great Roosevelt was II) has come to the defense of the U. S. home, the U. S. family. His method is that of personal intramural reminiscence. Detecting a certain lack of home consciousness in his country, he finds that "It has become fashionable among certain silly people to rail at this greatest of civilized institutions-the family. This is merely a method of attracting attention to themselves...