Word: vastly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Until recently, the color of stars has had but little scientific value. It has now become an exact science, the chief working principle of which is to photograph the star first by yellow light and second by blue light. A vast piece of work in this field is now in progress which will make, when finished, a valuable contribution to the laws of the universe...
...gymnasium necessary, and the class of 1917 is soon to be given an opportunity to show its opinion. The committee again requests students to fulfill their pledges immediately, and send their contributions to Lee, Higginson & Co. If this is done at once, it will save the committee a vast amount of clerical work which will otherwise be necessary in securing the contributions. This is positively the last request which will be made for voluntary fulfillment of the pledges...
...much to remedy this evil is shown by the fact that already, in little more than half a year since it was founded, it has published approximately two hundred and twenty-five important books and essarys of scientific description, mostly by members of the Faculty. These contributions, covering a vast scientific field, show by their comprehensive nature, the wide extent of the work being done here...
During the past week the Brown eleven has shown material improvement in every department of the game, the greatest of all, perhaps, being the development of a real interference. The whole team has shown a vast increase in speed, both in offensive and defensive work, and should be able to play a good game against Ursinus today...
...Weston and Mills. The latter plays rather high on the line, and in general shows rack of training. Yet he is very heavy, firm under attack, and has lots of grit and muscle. Under the tuition he is receiving from Bob Fisher and the Withingtons, his work should show vast improvement in the course of a couple of weeks Soucy appeared at centre during about half of the scrimmage, and also showed a lack of acquaintance with the fine points of the game. Trumbull, the regular first string centre, was on the field, but was given a rest...