Word: vastly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Lampoon team is an example of vast incongruity, where sympathy enters into and prevents our appreciation of the comic. From Capt. Herter down through the whole board to Kettell at the bottom, it presents a pitiful mosaic of baseball inability. In lieu of anything better, H. G. Francke '14 has been secured to umpire...
...Fitch outlined the groups as the complacent provincialists, the conscientious provincialists, and the bitter provincialists. The first are the private school men, who draw together naturally and unconsciously by reason of their similar training and vast interests in common; the second are the public school men, sprung from the so-called "middle classes," who hold off from the first group partly from disapproval and partly from disapproval and partly from inability to break social barriers; and the third, a group far greater than is generally realized, consists of those who have, by dint of extraordinary grit and determination, worked their...
Long before 1912, it had been shown in what a terrible condition China, with its vast population of 400,000,000, was. There is scarcely a community which has not been at some time the prey of cholera, tuberculosis and the like. China, unaided by the science of the West, has been unable to cope with these conditions. In the entire country, there are but 650 trained physicians, one to every 600,000 people; or, at the same ratio as if there were but one doctor in Boston. There are 250 hospitals in China, averaging 30 beds each, which...
...autographs of distinguished men. There is sometimes a failure to perceive that an officer's commission in 1750 as a higher value than a printed county history on that period. The Commission, as its name signifies, is interested mainly in getting together material relating to western history, although a vast deal of this material lies in the desks and attics in the "down East" States. The Commission has been very careful to make clear the point that it is not seeking to draw exceptional local material away from those points of which it is more interpretive, but is rather interested...
...Vast Routine of Duties...