Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pair of scissors. These scissors have a double significance; they describe what has happened to most of the foreign news before it reaches the hands of Mr. Young in his capacity of Cable Editor of the New York Times, and also represent how the author has cut apart the vast layer of propaganda to get at the truth of the foreign situation. "Looking Behind the Censorships" does much more than present the difficulties of the foreign news hawk, it attempts to get at the bottom of the maze of events abroad, and expounds in the process some surprising conclusions which...
...Volsci. About 600 B. c. they were first smitten by dread malaria. Of these dire swamps wrote Vergil, Juvenal, Martial, Horace, Ovid and others, including Madame de Stael and more recently Gabriele D'Annunzio. Julius Caesar made elaborate plans for reclamation, Augustus and even Nero had vast labors performed, but in vain. The Catholic popes, notably that enlightened Medici, His Holiness Leo X, then took over the unequal struggle with the potent Pontine Marshes, and finally in 1918 the Italian Government made elaborate plans...
...balance was a sizable $320,662,000. Reasons for this were simple: 1) Though still a half less than in the first quarter of the 1929 boom, the volume of U. S. foreign trade has nearly doubled since 1932; 2) more or less stable business conditions abroad plus vast rearming programs have kept foreign buying of U. S. goods steady while U. S. buying of foreign goods has slumped with U. S. depression...
Mary E. Townsend, Radcliffe '40 rose before breakfast Monday morning to plant her prize blossom, but a few hours later she found it in a vast of water, brightening up one of the administration offices...
...Howard Pew of Sun Oil Co. went to Washington to protest. Denying that the present setup was monopolistic or unjust, he declared: "I resent such an indictment. There's nothing I consider more un-American and unsportsmanlike than the fixing of prices." ¶ Pressed its antimonopoly trial of vast Aluminum Co. of America. Year ago last week the Department of Justice filed suit for the dissolution of this $236,000,000 foundation of the Mellon empire. By one legal maneuver after another ALCOA delayed the trial until it was finally scheduled to start May 2 in Manhattan. Three weeks...