Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...getting in a bit of constructive criticism. Said he: "Instead of trying to find a balance to Agriculture by paying the farmer to curtail a crop, we should endeavor to expand another crop which can be marketed or which would improve the fertility of the soil. We import vast quantities of vegetable oils, sugar and other commodities. . . . We need to replenish our soils with legumes and restore coverages. ... I believe we must be prepared to subsidize directly such special crops until agriculture has again been brought into balance. At the end of such a road we could hope...
...Sacha Stavisky, alias Serge Alexandre. If he now & then asked some of the defendants to perform individual crooked acts, and if some of the defendants even admitted performing these, that did not alter the submission of all the defendants that as individuals they had had no knowledge of the vast ramifications of Swindler Stavisky's crockeries but had considered him a man of substance. Stavisky was, they submitted, a "Financial Napoleon," the magnitude of whose coups and victories on the Bourse erased his peccadillos from the minds of Cabinet Ministers and the Surete Generate, who "never bothered Sacha, although...
Without for an instant relaxing her interest in the Girl Scouts, in musical scholarships, hospitals, asylums, and all her other welldoing, Mrs. Rockefeller set aside a certain amount of her own Aldrich money for art. As a collector's budget, it was no vast sum. All the pictures that she has since given to the Rhode Island School of Design, to Fisk University, to Dart mouth College and to the Museum of Modern Art-about 1,000 important items-probably did not cost anywhere near the $1,166,400 that Andrew Mellon paid the Soviet Government...
Romantically slim and handsome in his youth, Henry Hobson Richardson grew into a great bearded barrel of a man (see cut p. 29), proud of his wife and six children, his combined home and office, his vast capacity for champagne and the bright yellow vests he wore with evening clothes. Though he built several churches he was by no means a religious man. In fact at dinner one evening his good friend Phillips Brooks, rector of Boston's Trinity, was abashed to learn that Architect Richardson had never read the Bible. Architect Richardson promised to do so. started...
...director of the famed BUY BRITISH campaign. Late in 1934 Mr. Huxley, along with a Dutchman and a veteran British tiger-hunter, arrived in the U. S. Mr. Huxley represented the Ceylon growers, the Dutchman spoke for Java-Sumatra and the tiger-hunter looked after India's vast interests. They were unable to find anyone in Manhattan interested in them or their tea until they were discovered by Adman Esty...