Word: vast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present our government is preparing industry on a vast scale for a climax known as "M" day. It has been brought to my attention by several people concerned with the coffin industry that their business is being completely overlooked. During World War I the shattered remains of Americans were buried in foreign coffins, thereby showing how we failed to give domestic employment to hundreds, as well as dividends to the coffin stockholders. Therefore I am hoping that TIME will support this noble cause by demanding that our government order from various coffin makers hundreds of thousands of coffins and have...
...loss of first-line combat planes in the first months of fighting is expected by the U. S. Air Corps if ever its new armada flies to war.* Such appalling losses put a premium upon a vast reserve of pilots. Last week the non-military Civil Aeronautics Authority took a long step to increase that reserve: it certified 220 U. S. colleges and universities for participation in its pilot-training program, prepared to name still more to share $5,675,000 voted by Congress for schooling 11,000 new fliers this year...
Best Allied bet seemed to be the destruction of the vast supply system needed to feed and munition the 1,000,000-odd men the Germans will have within and behind the Siegfried Position. This is the bombers' job. That done, infantry could then be given a chance to do what skillful infantry has done since time immemorial: take up terrain favorable to it and unfavorable to the enemy-on ridges, slopes, behind spurs-and when the counter-attackers uncoil their spring, let them have it. A bath of dragon's blood made the hero Siegfried invulnerable except...
Married. Michael Whitney Straight, 23, son of the late Willard Dickerman Straight, founder of the New Republic and Asia, and of Mrs. Leonard Knight Elm-hirst, queen of Dartington Hall, vast educational experiment in Devonshire, England; and Belinda Booth Crompton, 19; in Wilton...
Recently started and successfully maintained is the undergraduate faculty which has been opening up vast opportunities to underprivileged high school students to learn something about college courses. Chairmaned by E. Langdon Burwell '41 and Lawrence Lader '41 the undergraduate family consists of a hundred student volunteers who each tutor a graduate from some high school who because of his financial situation is unable to attend college. Once or twice a week the student meets the volunteer instructor in the latter's college room, shares his notes and books and occasionally attends lectures with...