Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vast, glassed-in courtyard of the Hotel des Invalides, only a few paces from the tomb of Napoleon, the whole 2,500 Legionnaires were seated at one time to eat a Paris lunch so good that ultimately all cheered and handclapped a strapping Legionnaire who rose and bellowed: "So far as I am concerned the French debt is settled-all agreed...
...President spent a week roving through the vast forests and high mountains of the most heroic terrain in the U. S. as though he had on Bunyan's boots. Bonneville Dam, 170 ft. high, 1,250 ft. long is being built by War Department engineers complete with staircases as well as two electric elevators for traveling salmon...
...records for hauling passengers on Berlin trams, busses, subways and elevated lines were broken with a figure of 5,100,000 on the day Il Duce and Der Fuhrer keynoted in a heavy rain. This soddened everything but the Nordic cheers of their vast open-air audience nearly 1,000,000 of whom were Germans who had got up at 7 a.m. to march and drill all day in their Nazi organizations before they took their stand to hear the speeches at 7 p.m. As a furious cloudburst came down Mussolini made a quick remark to Hitler who gestured...
...Ships (1935) and other books, Hendrik Willem Van Loon has avoided the full light of adult criticism by seeming to write not quite for adults, has thus been able to remain one of the great inestimables of the literary world. Critics who resent being spoon-fed from the vast Van Loon pudding are easily convinced by the Van Loon illustrations that his books belong in the nursery. Some children feel vaguely dissatisfied with Artist Van Loon's inky snarls and scratches. Between these critical extremes, chuckling down history's and culture's corridors, Mr. Van Loon...
...series of newscasts which will be heard four nights a week over NBC's Blue network. Bromo Quinine is recommended "For colds and simple headaches," and to most observers of the U. S. scene, Grove's choice of General Johnson seemed singularly appropriate. On a vast scale the General has been causing headaches in one quarter or another for the past four years-first to businessmen when he was the Blue Eagle's boss, then to anti-New Dealers in general when he began writing his United Feature column, and currently to the New Deal itself...