Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nominal cost; secondly, to open up to them linguistic and cultural opportunities unknown in America; and thirdly, to acquaint them with the varied forms of outdoor life on the rivers and mountains of Europe. From all points of view Mr. Watt's efforts have, in past years, met with vast success...
Frantically last week the Dutch Government's radio station at Willemstad called The Hague for help. To his vast dismay Governor B. W. T. van Slobbe had found 97 Gómezes landing, bag & baggage, on his tight little island of Curaçao, only 40 miles off the coast of Venezuela. It was no laughing matter. The fugitives were the children, grandchildren, in-laws, aunts, uncles and cousins of dead Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez of Venezuela, seeking safety from the wrath of a people that sexy old codger had oppressed for more than 20 years. Anyone...
...their heroes before," boomed the New York Herald Tribune. "They have broken them in misunderstanding or persecuted them with meanness. But when has a nation made life unbearable to one of its most distinguished men through a sheer inability to protect him from its criminals and lunatics and the vast vulgarity of its sensationalists? ... It seems as incredible as it is shocking. . . . The Lindberghs can live with some freedom in England . . . because of the adult public sense of good taste, restraint and respect for individual right and privacies which underlies the British freedom from crime...
...little Jacobs house in Bay St. Louis, Miss, there was vast commotion one day last week. Telephone and doorbell buzzed like mad, neighbors flew in & out, tongues clacked incessantly. Mrs. Jacobs rang up her husband at his tollhouse on the Pontchartrain Bridge, spoke breathlessly. Stuttering with excitement, he relayed her message by long distance to his two daughters at Louisiana State University, who shrilled the great news through their dormitory. It was three days before Christmas. It was Mrs. Jacobs' 44th birthday. It was also her 22nd wedding anniversary. But none of these pleasant milestones was the cause...
...coal leaves a coke residue-which can also be converted by the water-gas process. Currently, artificial gas for heating is a luxury because it takes about $48 worth to equal a ton of coal. Three-fourths of that cost goes for distribution. If it were consumed on a vast scale in factories and homes the cost would be diminished to a point where few people could afford not to use it. Then U. S. grime would be localized in the mining centres which would send out not only fuel by pipeline but electric current by long-distance superconducting cables...