Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miami, with the 17 members of the Executive Council were about 100 lesser laborites and hangers on. To the vast annoyance of the all-night poker players the Executive Council sessions were scheduled for 9:00 a. m. However, they only lasted until 12:30 p. m. after which there was a daily exodus to the race track at Hialeah Park. One labor man lost $1,500 in two days...
...Portugal, terrified villagers rushed through the streets shouting "0 firn do mundo!" (the end of the world). In war-minded France, the cry was "C'est la guerre!" In Austria and elsewhere in Europe, kneeling peasants gibbered prayers. In Holland, merry celebrants hailed the vast curtains of red, orange, purple, green, blue and white light shifting and shimmering in the northern sky as a happy omen for the delivery of Princess Juliana (see p. 77). In London, which had not seen the aurora borealis since the dire night of a Zeppelin raid during the War, someone, thinking that Windsor...
Then a bus line was put through to Keu Kong, and young Fung Kwok-keung took to hanging around the bus depot, developed a vast interest in things mechanical. Mechanics made him think of America. So he let the elder Fung know and his journey to the U. S. was arranged. Hounded by reporters from the time he docked in Vancouver until he stepped off a train in Manhattan, Fung Kwok-keung, unable to speak a word of English, threw himself weeping into his father's arms...
...world's greatest securities market is not, as most people suppose, the New York Stock Exchange. Together that exchange and 21 others in various U. S. cities trade in a mere 7,000 security issues. But the vast, inchoate and little publicized U. S. over-the-counter market deals with no less than 55,000. The dollar volume of business it handles has been estimated as much as 300% above that of the exchanges, but no one knows how great it is. Nor does anyone know exactly how many "otc" dealers there are. On January 1, 6,883 such...
...reality? Readers who knew their Stuart Chase expected a lively piling up of rough-hewn evidence, the sinister emergence of a nigger, and a whooping pursuit. They were not disappointed. The Tyranny of Words is a typical Stuart Chase book: popular, suggestive, controversial, a racy simplification of a vast problem...