Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington stormed white-thatched James A. Emery, general counselor for the National Association of Manufacturers. Fist clenched, he damned the bill as unconstitutional, cumbersome and certain to hoist consumer prices. "The vast and ambiguous . . . ocean of authority . . . granted to a board of five . . . will obliterate the last vestige of local self-government." What the country really needed from Congress, he said, was legislation to fasten some responsibility upon labor unions...
...ceremony of Trooping the Color, high spot in all King's Birthday celebrations, went off with unction and dispatch. Crowds as dense as those for the Coronation itself jammed the Mall from Buckingham Palace to the Horse Guards Parade back of Whitehall, packed solidly the rim of that vast parade ground. Forming three sides of a hollow square of bulbous bearskins and scarlet coats stood eight companies, chosen from the five regiments of the Brigade of Guards...
Four times a day for six days (five on Saturdays), a vast, synthetic sunburst explodes in the auditorium of Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, world's biggest theatre. Sometimes the 75-piece Music Hall Symphony Orchestra plays almost prayerfully. Sometimes it lashes and groans through a hot, new delirium. The 46 young ladies in the Rockette troupe are equal to either occasion. They can move shyly and demurely in ballet tulle. They can kick and whirl giddily to shrieking brass. Exact, machine-like execution has made the Rockettes known wherever U. S. precision dancing is known...
...Chancellor Bowman into trouble with the American Association of University Professors. But the Cathedral of Learning kept climbing into the air. Last week, with Pitt's sesquicentennial celebration well under way, the Cathedral of Learning, now 90% complete, was opened to two days of public inspection. Into a vast, four-story-high Commons Room, whose fluted columns and mosaic floor had just been finished, Chancellor Bowman invited representatives of his students, trustees and faculty to watch a belated cornerstone laying. With Mayor Cornelius Decatur Scully and Steel Heiress Helen Clay Frick looking on, the chancellor gave the stone...
Standing on an open plot in Manhattan near Madison Avenue and 59th Street in the early 1890s was a mechanical contraption that would have been an inspiration to Cartoonist Rube Goldberg. Snaked around the plot in a vast maze of loops, twists and double turns were several miles of pipe, through which was pumped a grimy mixture of water and pulverized coal. Purpose was to demonstrate the possibilities of pumping coal from the mines, an idea which was pronounced feasible in its day by men like Frick and Carnegie, and won an award at the Chicago World's Fair...