Word: vast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frank Black will conduct the Cities Service hour 52 Friday nights. He will also continue to be NBC's musical director, conduct the RCA Magic Key concerts Sunday afternoons, run his NBC string symphony this summer, oversee NBC's vast music library, dash off arrangement - popular or high-brow - which are the envy of the profession. For all this he will collect some...
...marks a kind of high point in Hay's astonishment. It also suggests the reason why Hay, like every other man who knew Lincoln intimately, spent the rest of his life collecting material about him. "What a man it is!" Hay exclaims. "Occupied all day with matters of vast moment, deeply anxious about the fate of the greatest army of the world, with his own fame & future hanging on the events of the passing hour, he yet has such a wealth of simple bonhommie & good fellowship that he gets out of bed & perambulates the house in his shirt...
Beside the middle-distance and distance men who will run tonight, Jaakko can draw from a vast reserveir of strength which includes half-milers Rolla Campbell, Bob Russell, George Olive, and Eddy Childs; milers Langdon Burwell, Dick Story and Baker; and two-milers Dave Simbolf, Bob Nichols, Dick Wing, and Joe McLoughlin...
Slowly, ever so ponderously up out of the inky depths comes the iron chamber. Like a tiny globular elevator in some vast, unpartitioned building, it rises through the water. From its top swirl several strands of seaweed which have twined themselves in the lifting chain with friendly tentacles, and which now hang loose like sparse hairs on the otherwise bald pate of the diving bell. A swirl of the dark current and these few strands, looking grayish in the gloom, drift away, leaving the head completely scalped. From the bottom of the chamber sprouts a sticky brown-black beard which...
Shor immediately wrote that he "and several other instructors" were interested, and wanted more information. An Economics A student, he is already planning to organize a vast net of holding companies among the residents of Apley and Claverly to purchase the institution...