Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Warrior Lewis was asked whether, as reported, C. I. O. plans to invade the vast construction field, which up to now has belonged almost exclusively to A. F. of L. and has long given the Federation its dominant leadership. "No comment," said he abruptly enough to keep the report alive...
...Nazis never thanked him for handing them Czechoslovakia on a platter. Instead, they have poured hatred on his head. Last week came the unkindest cut of Nazi ingratitude. Supersoapboxing Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels addressed a meeting of 15,000 students and workers in Berlin's vast Sportspalast after the news had been broken that, since the Polish Government has banned seasonal emigration of farm hands into Germany, German students will be drafted to work on Reich farms this summer...
...Hays office with the title: Land of Liberty. To compile it, 53 large and small cinemakers contributed 2,000,000 feet of film. The earliest: a newsreel of the Kaiser (1914); the latest: The Bill of Rights, a Warner Bros, short to be released in August. From this vast batch, Hays office experts and recruits from studios culled 1,000 excerpts from 125 films, and in the last two months Veteran Producer Cecil B. DeMille and Historian James T. Shotwell have worked side by side in Hollywood putting the pieces together with proper commentary and fanfare...
Concrete v. Abstract. Few men in the world know more about the workings of the human brain than grey-locked Neurologist Kurt Goldstein, formerly of the University of Berlin, now at New York City's vast Montefiore Hospital...
...more delirious moments, after coming home from the pictures, we are apt to think of the United States as one vast Coney Island, peopled with gunmen's molls, Dead End kids, corn-fed blondes, tap-dancing Negroes, G-Men, bubble dancers, tough babies, flagpole sitters, Kentucky moonshiners, Irish cops and co-eds with voices like nails on a sheet of glass. This is rather like confining one's study of English life to the side shows at the circus...