Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Question Mark. It is this vast, untapped, bookless audience that most excites those concerned with increasing U. S. book-reading. It has been claimed that if a way could be found to irrigate this desert, U. S. book sales would soar by 85%. Most observers agree that there are only two possible channels for this irrigation: 1) cheaper books, 2) better distribution...
...Federal tax on its admissions; because its people know no other work and their talents are social assets; because they bring cheer to millions, and give benefit shows to relieve the distress of others. At her conclusion Miss Bankhead broke into tears. Next day she sent the committee a vast basket of roses...
Last week found Europe's peasants repairing machines, mending carts, sharpening scythes. In southern France, Italy, Russia, a decisive harvest began. A peasant army hundreds of thousands strong, strung out on a vast peaceful front from Siberia through France, was advancing by successive mobilizations as yellowing grainfields quickly ripened northward. To war-anxious Europe this peaceful mobilization meant a kind of armistice. For while peasants in uniform fight Europe's wars, they could hardly be set to fighting until they had got in the grain. And since even modern mechanized armies still travel on their stomachs, no nation...
...June 11 Pravda and Izvestia reported, only 46% of the combines had received needed repairs. Spare parts were missing, experienced mechanics and drivers lacking, while in certain districts old machinery had not been repaired at all. A repetition of last year's inability to harvest vast areas, including one section of 500,000 acres, threatened. In addition, peculiar weather conditions in some regions caused winter and spring wheat to ripen at the same time, made a doubly heavy harvest. But if Russians (with only half as many horses as before the Revolution) could overcome their combine difficulties, there seemed...
There is no malice in this. It is just Dr. Conklin's tart way of speaking. He regards science as a vast cooperative enterprise in which it is difficult to find the real beginning of anything, and he is sure that too many textbooks attach personal labels to epochal discoveries. No one has the faintest idea who invented the wheel, the pulley, the boat, the sail. And who really invented those later marvels, the friction match, the barometer, the airplane, the steamboat...