Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Again, your article gives the impression that, because in Quebec and Montreal the crowds failed to yell hysterically and throw vast quantities of ticker tape and toilet paper -as happens in certain cities-their loyalty to Their Majesties was very cool...
Fifty thousand patents are issued in Washington every year. The vast majority of these are flops; most important inventions are made by hired technicians in industrial laboratories. But the average member of the National Inventors Congress is an obdurately optimistic freelance who never loses hope that he will hit on something magically profitable...
Before plunging into the KFAR project, Cap Lathrop did considerable prospecting. He located every mine and outpost in the vast Alaskan interior within KFAR's expected range, which is more than the U. S. Government has ever done. For expected sponsors the census showed a potential audience of some 25,000, with a per capita buying power five times that of the average U. S. consumer and very little else to do evenings but listen to a radio. Expecting a short-wave network connection with some U. S. chain, KFAR nevertheless intends to broadcast home-made programs for Alaska...
...story book version of that trial generally sounds slightly McGuffey; Hollywood's vast inflation of it is louder and funnier and off its historical base in almost every particular. Cinemauthor Lamar Trotti last week explained: "When I was working as a reporter on the Atlanta Georgian, I covered a murder trial and became very interested in the accused man and his family. I've always wanted to do a story about them, and this is it. . . . It's really only a whodunit...
...sects. Their local congregations distrust creeds, abhor ecclesiastics, are not bound by anything the Conventions say or do. Last week the Southern Baptist Convention, concluding its meeting in Oklahoma City, remained equally independent toward interchurch unity. Baptist John Benjamin Lawrence spoke for his brethren when he deplored the "vast enveloping movement which aims to tie Baptists up in a bundle with other bodies with which they have no ecclesiastical affinity." The Convention shelved for at least a year a proposal to join the slowly growing World Council of Churches...