Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite its vast size, including thousands of individual stars, and stretching out 2 degrees in the sky, the group has never before been seen by astronomers because of its faintness, Shapley said...
...greater than the uninitiated had supposed. In THE COUNTRY DOCTOR, we have the reminiscences of a man who has lived in a small town in up-state New York, close to the Canadian border. Small though the town is, the area which must be covered by a doctor is vast and wild. His patients range from Indians and French-Canadians, to small farmers and village folk, and his duties from major operations to treating contagious illnesses...
...policies of the chief executive. He has raised a delicate legal question that may drag on for months, but whatever the decision, this struggle of personalities is another proof of the peculiar opportunism which the President has always possessed. He is a chess player whose plan consists of a vast desire to win, whose method is to cope with each situation when it comes up and not before, hardly troubling himself to look more than one move ahead. This time he seems to have worked himself into a hole...
Mexico is backward and primitive, but Mexican Chavez is the most futuristically minded of contemporary musicians. He has a firm faith that the development of electrically controlled instruments will bring about a musical golden age. In a recent book,* he predicted the invention of vast music-creating engines, envisioned a musical art in which present-day musical instruments and "interpretive" musicians would no longer be necessary. What this music of the future would sound like, and why anyone should want to create it or listen to it, Prophet Chavez left to his readers' imagination...
Allan Hancock was the browbeaten son of an overbearing dowager who made him house his wife in the back yard of her vast Los Angeles estate. In 1925 he lost his only son, Bertram, in the Santa Barbara earthquake. He turned to mechanics, playing engineer at the throttle of his Santa Maria Valley Railroad engines; to aeronautics, learning to fly and fostering the Hancock Foundation College of Aeronautics in Santa Maria; to music, with serious and successful study of the cello; to yachting, with what has become a formidable interest in marine biology...