Word: vastest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hitherto at the request of the French, out of consideration for the staunchly Catholic character of its citizens and a sort of traditional leaning that they are supposed to have toward French influence. Perhaps it has been spared out of consideration for the famous Cologne Cathedral, one of the vastest and most famous fanes of Catholic worship in Europe; and this degree of consideration is not strange on the part of the British and French, although the Germans themselves have not a shred of respect for either the sanctity or the beauty of cathedrals...
...China another economic world cockpit is very distinctly beginning to appear. This vast, unmilitary nation, emerging into the adolescence of modern government, is the vastest storehouse of virgin economic energy still remaining on the globe's face. Her coal and iron are sufficient to last the world for 1,000 years at the present rate of consumption...