Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These three constitute an integral part of the team's attack, and their presence in the lineup would probably have meant a larger margin of victory for the Tigers Saturday. But a vast improvement in both standard of play and mental attitude must be effected this week if Old Nassau hopes to stay in the fight with Harvard...
Along with the property went $800,000 to be paid in back taxes, a vast amount of debts. And Beula Croker's legal affairs are still in such a mess that it may take two or three years of hard litigation to clear the title to all her property...
...during the War of the Spanish Succession, Britain actually captured Minorca, held it on and off for over 50 years and held Majorca almost as long. Three years ago it was no secret to European war offices that British firms and British military engineers were said to be building vast fortifications around the harbors of Majorca and Minorca. Nevertheless, when, a year ago, Italy virtually seized Majorca and Iviza in the name of General Franco, Britain held her peace for the reason that Minorca, easternmost of the three islands and most important with regard to Britain's lifeline, remained...
...when the world had had less experience with high-explosive municipal warfare than it has had since, vast was its indignation that in a single day in the first battle of the Marne, 287 German shells smashed into the 800-year-old Cathedral of Reims. By 1919 the Cathedral was a shambles, its 400-ton lead roof melted, nearly all of its great stained-glass windows blown out, 24 of its 35 ancient statues wrecked, all its flying buttresses demolished or badly damaged. Altogether the damage amounted to 140,000,000 francs (then $27,000,000). Among benefactors who contributed...
...financial policies is old and enduring. But last week there was little expression of it in Boston. Guest Speaker Glenn Frank, erstwhile president of the University of Wisconsin, rapped at the Administration, as did President Henning Webb Prentis of Armstrong Cork Co., and both were resoundingly clapped, but the vast majority of topics discussed in the four-day conclave dwelt upon problems more pertinent to bankers than to the nation...