Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vast majority of American universities and colleges encourage undergraduate attendance at football practices, because the coaches and college officials feel that lively interest on the part of the student body helps the team to play a better game. With permission to attend one or two practices a week, Harvard men would be in much closer contact with their own football team and the benefit received would be mutual. Naturally there are always times when the utmost secrecy must be maintained in regard to new plays or team lineups, but one or two open practices ought not to divulge important matters...
...material he had at his disposal. From her infant days Miss Lowell preserved her diaries, her books, her themes; and there are even paper-dolls available for those who wish to study the origins of genius. The immense mass of her correspondence is but the center of a vast collection of biographical data; every scrap of print about her that clipping bureaus could furnish--and for a dozen years her name was always copy--is carefully preserved. In view of this profusion, it is to the biographer's credit that his chronicle so seldom degenerates into a calendar...
...usual, however, vast Netherlands Indies, not the small Netherlands, was the nub of the Speech from the Throne. Without directly mentioning the Dutch Cabinet's fear that outbreak of a major war anywhere would be the signal for the Japanese Fleet to pounce upon Borneo and seize from the Netherlands Indies the most important oil fields in the whole Far East, the Speech of matronly Wilhelmina touched tidily upon the new defenses for the Netherlands Indies now being invested in by Her Majesty's Government. By 1040 the Netherlands Indies air force is to be completely reorganized with...
Bethlehem Steel's Eugene Grace: I believe that the vast industrial development which has taken place is certain to continue...
...courts, and music rooms, to say nothing of the dining halls which offer the most valuable means of acquaintance, have been of great value in giving purpose to the undergraduate's scholastic pursuits. He is now made to feel, by his very surroundings, that he is part of a vast intellectual activity, and that even his recreation may be directed toward the common goal. They make him realize his increased social responsibility. But, although the Houses have been a true blessing to undergraduate life, they have fallen short of their goal in several respects. Instead of integrating the College into...