Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...powerful and unethical newspapers have in the past, and may in the future involve their country in wars and assasinations. The leadership of newspapers has proved at times more potent than that of politicians themselves; at other times, as in the past election, completely futile. Always, however, it has vast potentialities, particularly for developing a new profession with a sound code of ethics, for breeding a new race of statesmen with vision...
Brazil's Foreign Minister, Jose Carlos de Macedo Scares, one of the biggest businessmen in São Paulo, owner of vast coffee plantations, a student of economics and diplomacy, the kind of man who wears comfortable and badly wrinkled linen suits, is not interested in social functions and rides to his office in full state behind a chauffeur and a liveried footman...
...hrer for a short, sharp drive to seize Leningrad began last week to take on some of the dignity of predictions. Nazi strategists, political as well as military, were said to feel that the greatest folly would be a German invasion a la Napoleon which would lose itself in vast Russia, but that internal Russian forces of disunion would overthrow the Bolshevik leaders once the Russian people knew Dictator Stalin had been unable to hold Leningrad. "The Cradle of the Communist Dictatorship." and such parts of the Baltic regions and the Ukraine as would fall to an even moderately successful...
...reason that Mormonism appeals to a man in search of a religion is that its priesthood is vast, every male communicant in good standing belonging to its higher or lower division depending upon whether he is 21 or younger. There are also plenty of Mormon offices. Chicago's Stake was divided last week into four wards, three in the city, one in Milwaukee, each directed by an elected bishop and two counselors. Elected Stake President was President William A. Matheson of Rollaway Bed Corp. Chicago Mormons are eligible for office in the Mormon agencies which cement the Church...
...vast specialty press of the U. S. is now added an instructive new monthly called The Pawnbrokers' Journal. Publisher is one David Silver, a thin-thatched, spectacled, onetime jeweler who launched his venture on the promising estimate that there are some 13,000 pawnshops in the land, until now lacking in a literature of their...