Word: vast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany, which needs gold more than guns, even offered to sell to France some of the vast cache of arms seized when the Nazis marched into Czecho-Slovakia. Heading the list of bargains were 1,600 war planes. Czech Army equipment was originally financed in part by French loans...
...vast number of Freshmen had three examinations over one weekend at mid-years, while some had as many as four. What does the University expect students with such exam schedules to do? Risk failing two out of their four courses, when they could pass by patronizing the Square tutoring schools? Theoretically, I suppose, students should be able to prepare themselves well enough ahead of time to meet any atrocious examination schedule. But, obviously, theory and practice do not always coincide...
...problem of program-planning has received much publicity of late, with musicians and critics agitating strenuously for an expansion of repertoires to bring to light some of the vast literature of undeservedly neglected music. This is a question of greatest importance to the musical public, for music is unique among the arts in its inaccessibility. Only a few highly trained musicians can read scores with as much pleasure as they get from a performance, and though recorded music has provided us with a few musical musecums, actual performances are still the chief means of bringing music to life...
...different terms they state the causes of international conflict-as rivalry between the Haves and the Havenots, between the countries struggling to keep what they have and the countries struggling to expand. Or they see it as the clash of rival ideologies or of rival imperialists, with a vast segment of the world looking to Great Britain to maintain order while protecting her remote dominions, and another segment threatening to block her channels of communication with them. Or they see it as a problem of overpopulation in the crowded centres of the world, the masses of Europe and Japan swelling...
...cost houses down to brass tacks, the two sharpest being 1) that more than 70% of U. S. families now earn less than $2,000 a year, and 2) that the 35% with incomes between $1,000 and $2,000 in good times and bad make up a vast and virtually untapped market for building. For this 35%, houses must cost from $4,000 down. ARCHITECTURAL FORUM gave architects virtually the first survey of the problems of designing houses in this price range, which they have hitherto ignored...