Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flags of Italy and Hungary though the Hungarian flag is of a different stripe (horizontal). Firmly grasping thousands of both kinds of flags in their damp fists, Budapest school children lined the streets last week all the way from the railroad station across the Danube to the vast pile of Franz Josef's royal palace above the city. The kingless Kingdom of Hungary was entertaining the first royalty to visit it officially since the owl-eyed King of Siam went to Budapest shortly after the War. Little old Vittorio Emanuele of Italy, his strapping Queen and Fascist Foreign Minister...
...view was a vast cross section of the Church's journals, copies of everything from the Dubuque Catholic Daily Tribune to the weeklies America and Commonweal, intellectual high for the Catholic press, and the Paulist Fathers' monthly Catholic World. Most professional-looking was the weekly Brooklyn Tablet, whose front page is not unlike that of the New York Times. Oddest was the Catholic Worker, whose editors style themselves "Radicals of the Right," call on employers to recognize workers "not as wage slaves, but as brothers of Christ, members of the Mystical Body...
...With airplane size now reaching vast proportions, most airports are becoming obsolete. The NACA has been experimenting with catapults to solve this problem, found that the forthcoming Douglas DC-4 will need a thrust of 15,000 Ib. to take off in 1,150 ft. This requires an engine of 3,250 h.p., which is too expensive. Probable solution will be a large flywheel which can store up this much energy. The catapult would presumably rise from an emplacement in the centre of the field. Passengers might need headrests, but would not be internally distressed by the sudden start...
...gathered at the gates of the walled estate. Similar scenes occurred at his Lakewood, N. J. estate, where Mr. Rockefeller lately spent his summers, and at Pocantico Hills, where Mr. Rockefeller had bought up whole villages to create his 3,500 acre dukedom, with its 50 mi. of roads, vast landscaping, staff of hundreds, private police force. Familiar to Mr. Rockefeller's neighbors, north and south, was his greeting: "Good day and God bless you." Many prized one of the 20,000 dimes he had bestowed with the admonition "Save...
...direction at 57, his health broken, his nerves shattered, his skull entirely bald. Even if Standard Oil had not felt the ax of the trustbusters, the near-monopoly would probably have been curbed in time by the independent oil companies, then riding to power on the automobile. For the vast fortune with which Mr. Rockefeller retired was founded on kerosene. He lived on to see that fortune effortlessly multiplied by gasoline. In his day kerosene for household lamps was a utility, and public resentment of its monopoly closely paralleled the later hatred of the Power Trust. But Mr. Rockefeller...