Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mediator. No direct descendant of any of the Barons at Runnymede is Lord Runciman. His father was a cabin boy who made himself one of Britain's shipping tycoons. As a businessman, keen Son Runciman added to the vast family fortune and prestige. Before the War, he was an outspoken champion of peace between Britain and Germany, delivered a public rebuke to Lord Roberts for having in a preparedness speech called war between them "inevitable...
...cardinal virtue, of preserving intact the mood and flavor of ordinary life in an ordinary U. S. town. Humor of the Hardy family chronicles is based principally on the pleasures of recognition. By the time Andy (Mickey Rooney) leads the grand march at the Christmas Eve dance, the vast majority of U. S. audiences will have found in his troubles, his family and his friends the prototypes of their own. Such cinema families as the Hardys and Twentieth Century-Fox's Joneses are well on their way to developing for modern cinemaddicts the kind of cumulative box office appeal...
Export-Import President Pierson, a 40-year-old California lawyer with a sense of humor and a vast love of travel, was pleased to reveal that he had agreed to discount notes of the Haitian Government for $5,000,000 worth of public works to be handled by J. G. White Engineering Corp., that he was discussing a substantial order of railroad equipment for Brazil, that the door was open to South American nations in general...
...Army freight transport Meigs zigzagged all night in a light rain, sending up flares and fingering the dark water with her searchlights. Late the next afternoon, 400 miles east of San Bernardino Strait in the Philippines, she came upon a vast patch of gasoline and oil, like rainbow-tinted gossamer rising and falling on the Pacific swells. She radioed her discovery to Manila. Airmen guessed that under the oil patch, in 5,000 fathoms, were 15 dead men and a handsome $450,000 airplane, the Hawaii Clipper...
Ever since the Supreme Court upheld the registration provisions of the Public Utility Holding Company Act, the utility industry has resembled a poker game with vast stakes and SEC Chairman William O. Douglas dealing. Last week, Bill Douglas dealt a new hand to an intriguing set of opponents-lean, smart, Floyd Odium of Atlas Corp., fat, cunning Howard Hopson of Associated Gas & Electric Co. and bald, battle-worn Harley Clarke, late president of Utilities Power & Light Corp. As this hard-bitten trio of utility financiers studied their cards, kibitzers gathered thick around. For the play was the first test...