Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...selling its birth-right cash down to the Lewis lieutenants. The exhilarating thrill of direct action should not dull the committee's mind to the principles for which the C.I.O. stands. Harvard labor enthusiasts would do well to make sure that the C.I.O. is not building up a vast organization of long-suffering people at the bottom of the pile just to glorify the vain and egotistical ambition...
...that sum, grossly exaggerated the fact. We have a small endowment much less than half that sum, just enough to attract sensible givers, who wish to give to a going concern, nonpartisan, courageous and non-purchasable, always alert to tackle the paramount issue. We are. able to do a vast work, if we had an endowment of a million...
...muddling through in northwest China last week was more a case of bloodling through. For the past five years China has had a compact, mobile, self-styled "Red State"-a vast semi-bandit group of Chinese Communists under able native Red generals, propagandists and administrators who in 1931 had established a Provisional Government in a large splotch of China some 200 miles in diameter, perilously close to the Chinese Government at Nanking (see map). This Red State today can be roughly compared to those of such old-time Asiatic nomad conquerors as Genghis Khan, whose traveling bureaucrats pitched their tents...
...maxim, attributed to Accursius (1182-1260) and much quoted by legalists, reads: Cuius est solum eius est usque ad coelum (He who owns the soil owns above it to the sky). Until recently this principle of property ownership was generally accepted, and air rights above property still sell for vast sums.* But the advent of air transport has vastly complicated Accursius' ancient tenet. When aircraft pass over a man's land or over foreign territory, is it trespass...
...Wilson & Co. showed a slight decline ($4,068,000 as against $4,109,000). Basic reason for this countertrend in a year of expanding industrial earnings was the confusion in meat markets caused by invalidation of AAA processing taxes and the subsequent drought, which forced farmers to slaughter a vast number of animals they could not feed. Although Cudahy Packing increased its profits from $1,211,000 in 1935 to $1,815,000, President Edward A. Cudahy Jr. wrote his stockholders that results "did not come up to our expectations." Stock holders in Armour & Co., however, received more than they...