Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oldest collegiate track meet in the U. S. is the Intercollegiate A.A.A.A. championships. Last week representatives of 31 colleges met in New York City's vast Municipal Stadium at Randall's Island for the 62nd annual meet, climax of the season...
...Carrel is 65 this month. He will leave soon to spend the summer on his island, as he does each year. Vigorous in mind and body, he has a definite program of experimental work in front of him. Colonel Lindbergh also has vast projects on which to work...
Small behind his vast bench in Manhattan's slick new U. S. courthouse, Federal Judge Francis Gordon Caffey last week peered down upon an important gathering. There was grey-haired Arthur Vining Davis, for 29 years president or chairman of huge Aluminum Co. of America. There was stocky Thurman Wesley Arnold, law professor lately made Assistant Attorney General in charge of trustbusting. Conferring occasionally with Mr. Davis was redhaired, big-boned William Watson Smith, Alcoa's trial lawyer for some 25 years. Conferring occasionally with Mr. Arnold was spry, young Walter Lyman Rice, only ten years...
...ingredient of all clay), but only a small portion of it is extractable. A 24-square-mile area in Arkansas is the chief U. S. source of bauxite, from which aluminum is commercially derived. Mr. Rice says Alcoa controls 19? square miles of this supply, and also has vast foreign holdings. U. S. aluminum is made under the Hall and the Bradley processes. Alcoa got ownership of both patents around the turn of the century; then, realizing that when the patents expired it would no longer have its monopoly, began buying up power, tremendous amounts of which are needed...
Mr.Nash has identified himself, in the Guestian manner, with the vast horde of Ordinary Citizens who are struggling to keep abreast of modern techniques of eating, dressing, plumbing and commuting. He has paused in the marathon to express his opinions on some of the more irritating aspects of his existence. His likes and dislikes are typically those of city-dwellers who curse and sweat over far-rolling collar-buttons, wives who make their husbands wait, parties next door, Blue Mondays, and socks that shrink uncontrollably. His comical fumings over the enraging trivialities of everyday life inevitably reduce the reader...