Word: vaste
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Messiah. Rapt and gleaming-eyed in Cleveland's vast Public Hall sat the delegates when their beloved leader uprose on opening day to sound his keynote. To outsiders he might seem a dim. ineffectual visionary, but to them he was a genuine Messiah. With an artificial tan poppy in the lapel of his white coat. Dr. Townsend settled his long chin down on his high, stiff collar, glued his eyes on his manuscript, droned out a fierce denunciation of New Deal extravagance. Only when it came to a remedy did the author of the plan to have the Government...
...reasons: 1) a lack of militant, progressive leadership as its officials became absorbed in guarding their vested interests, enjoying their fat salaries, spending their energies in jurisdictional squabbles; 2) development of machines and mass production, outmoding many an old-time craft, changing the structure of industry and turning the vast majority of U. S. industrial workers into unskilled or semiskilled tenders of machines. The conservatives of A. F. of L. have met the change by standing pat, insisting that craftsmen in mass industries be divided up among the old-line unions. Hence the employes of a single big corporation would...
...southern Texas last week pelting rains flooded creeks and rivers, drowned 28 citizens, destroyed some $2,000,000 worth of crops, livestock and other property. Almost everywhere else in the vast U. S. granary between the Appalachians and the Rockies farmers tramped sun-baked soil, watched their crops wither and their parched livestock totter, prayed for rain...
...only upon the warriors that the Italian Government has made war. It has above all attacked populations far removed from hostilities in order to terrorize and exterminate them. . . . Special sprayers were installed on board aircraft so they could vaporize over vast areas of territory a fine, death-dealing rain. Groups of nine, 15 or 18 aircraft followed one another so that the fog issuing from them formed a continuous sheet. It was thus that, as from the end of January 1936, soldiers, women, children, cattle, rivers, lakes and pastures were drenched continually with this deadly rain. In order to kill...
...characters suffered from boredom, made love or deliberately created trouble to avoid it, were about as uniformly unpleasant a set of moral idiots as any author has created. Not until Point Counter Point, published in 1928, did Author Huxley give evidence of his dissatisfaction with his mood of vast, all-embracing negation. In Rampion, obviously modeled on his friend D. H. Lawrence, he created a character who was sincere without being stupid, kind without being weak, and whose insistence on the need for the uninhibited life of the senses was dramatized by the wasted lives of the people around...