Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instantly upon the neck of Premier Sarraut jumped the vast majority of French newsorgans represented by the National Newspaper Federation. He and his Cabinet were accused of ''taking orders from the German Embassy." This raised the issue of freedom of the Press in France to its maximum power. Very tamely indeed Le Journal's revelations coupled Adolf Hitler's name with Jenny Hang, his chauffeur's sister; Erna Hanfstaengl, sister of his friend "Putzy"; Frau Winifred Wagner, widowed daughter-in-law of the composer; Margaret Slezak, daughter of a Viennese tenor; the Realmleader...
Robert Wadlow's giantism is due to dysfunction of the small, chestnut-like pituitary gland, which lies under the front part of the brain. Among the many results which follow pituitary disorder is muscular weakness. Vast Robert Wadlow must move slowly and deliberately, lest he drop things or stumble. At Shurtleff College, where he is a freshman, he ranks well above the average. His best subject is German. When he graduates he expects to become a lawyer...
Until this week only doctors and lawyers could legitimately buy Dr. Henry Havelock Ellis' compendious topographical survey of the vast, tangled jungles of sex activities which flourish in human bodies, souls and minds. When in 1897 this inquisitive Englishman published Sexual Inversion, from which was to grow his mighty Studies in the Psychology of Sex, London police promptly arrested the bookseller and confiscated all available copies of this volume. Year later Frank A. Davis of Philadelphia, as a personal favor to Dr. Ellis, began printing his Studies, which eventually ran to seven volumes and retailed...
Because the region into which the young flyer had headed was so vast, unknown and impenetrable, search was from the beginning regarded as largely useless. Nonetheless, a few attempts were made, and all future scientific expeditions through the Guianas or Venezuela were asked to keep an eye open. After five years of silence even Pilot Redfern's wife and father believed him dead, had given up hope that any trace of him or his plane would ever be found...
...When Wells Fargo put in a bid for the rail express contract, it found that an upstart named Pacific Union Express already had it. Simultaneously, it discovered the same concern had beaten down Wells Fargo stock from $100 to $13, then bought in, acquired control. In 1872, following a vast shuffle of officers, Lloyd Tevis of San Francisco became president of Wells Fargo...