Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King-Emperor and Realmleader past several of the most interesting relics of ancient Rome, all floodlighted- for Il Duce had stagemanaged that the Führer should drive past at 8:30 p. m. Soon the German Dictator sat up as though startled and amazed by the vast Roman Colosseum which seemed to be afire, glowing within by the light of thousands of red torches, while in each arch an Italian soldier stood at attention, silhouetted in full war gear; his steel helmet sharply outlined...
...stand by hummed through the U. S. radio industry. A more important fight than was ever put on the air-the match between the two great opposing philosophies of broadcasting- was about to begin. In this corner-the legislators and Government officials who look on radio as too vast and permeating a moral instrument to be left ungoverned by the body politic, too valuable a natural resource to be left free from State control. In that corner-the private broadcasters who have an estimated $150,000,000 invested in plant, who last year made some $140,000,000 from time...
...were wedge-shaped. Last week the Smithsonian Institution announced that Dr. Roland W. Brown had discovered, in a park near the White House, a ginkgo with leaves of this Cretaceous type. "It can hardly be looked upon otherwise," said the Smithsonian, "than as an atavism or throwback over a vast expanse of time...
...This vast collection, which will be on exhibit in Widener Library next week, includes several of Melville's travel journals, among which are the account of a voyage from New York to London in 1849, a trip "up the Straits" in 1856, and a voyage on board the ship 'Meteor...
Just a boy at heart, Laemmle takes time off to watch the boats go by. "Just a short time ago I witnessed the unloading of a Japanese freighter in San Pedro Harbor," he writes. "The ship was discharging a vast cargo of meshed wiring which is manufactured in many sections of this country...