Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going on in those fields or not. The exercise which this field exerts on one's brain--one's reasoning ability rather than memory--is particuther courses in Regional Geography covers the courses in Regional Geography covers successfully and interestingly what it is supposed to. Whittlesey has a vast fund of knowledge, gives serious and well organized lectures. Kemp is amusing, widely experienced, and stimulating to individual thought...
...campaign. At the extremity of the "extremists," General Araki is an open advocate of a campaign to strike at Russia while she is internally weak and ram her out of Vladivostok. Appointed as Finance Minister was white-haired, white-mustached, Harvard-educated Seihin Ikeda, former managing director of the vast Mitsui industrial empire...
Godfrey Lowell Cabot of Boston speaks to almost anybody, but his thoughts are definitely heavenward. He is 77, and in his old age he broods much about the vast stores of energy in sunlight which man does not utilize. In his youth he was closer to earth. Fresh from Harvard with a magna cum laude (1882), he went out to western Pennsylvania to help his brother build a plant for making carbon black (used in printing ink, shoe polish, automobile tires, etc.) from natural gas.* From carbon black he made a fortune. During the War, when he was nearing...
...Peace, war is essentially a moral struggle. From top to bottom of the army, each individual soldier is shown making his choice, determined by his sense of right & wrong, in moments of crisis. But in most World War novels, soldiers are shown caught in a vast impersonal military machine that operates blindly, automatically, uninfluenced by their individual actions. Simple privates or intellectual officers, they are alike in their helplessness and confusion: the machine of which they are part continues to operate regardless of their heroism or cowardice, their strength or weakness, their life or death...
...Laughing in the Jungle, the story of his first 15 years in the U. S. (1913-28), Slovenian Immigrant Louis Adamic called the U. S. "a vast socio-economic jungle." His "bursts of laughter," he confesses, were really a bluff to hide his fear. My America, running to 669 big pages of fine print, carries his story down to two months ago. "I am no longer 'scared' of the 'jungle,' " says Adamic, "and so I do not need to 'laugh' as much as I used to. In fact, hardly...