Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vast, waxy-gleaming floor of the East Room, where Mrs. John Adams once hung the White House wash, stood an enormous Christmas tree. This was the public tree, trimmed in white snow and white lights. Upstairs in the second-floor corridor stood the family tree, brilliant with colored balls, candles only on its fire-proofed upper branches, out of children's reach. Below it will mass breast-high stacks of family gifts...
...salary and give up the palace. Said the Bishop to his diocesan conference: "The idea that the Church is concerned largely with the upper classes is steadily growing, and I think it is due in part to the fact that we bishops are forced to live in vast houses which are symbols of aloofness. . . . We keep too many gardeners to grow too many vegetables to feed too many servants to make too many beds...
...undoubtedly the people's choice for musical programs. When he has no programs to announce, he has to sit watch in an empty studio, waste his vast voice every 15 minutes or so saying "WJZ, New York" during station breaks. For these exalted and lowdown services, his basic studio salary, after 18 years, is about $80 a week. Commercial jobs pay much more, but Milton Cross's extreme unction is unsuited to most commercial shows, which usually require more extraverted talent...
...into the background--a fate especially undeserved for a sport which enjoys such tremendous popularity among students and which has produced so many Crimson National Champions in past years. There are 71 squash courts scattered over the campus which are filled almost every hour of the day by a vast army of racquet enthusiasts. And even in loan years Harvard teams have not failed to be up near the top in Intercollegiate circles...
...Torguts-W. L. River-Stokes ($2.50). Based on the migration of the Torgut Mongols from the Volga to their Chinese homeland in 1771, this long, stiff-jointed "epic" leaves a picture of vast hordes, no individuals...