Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Turkey, today, is no match for Russia. Constantinople is a fixed point in Russian policy, and only the influence of England wards off the inevitable result of the clever diplomacy and vast resources of the empire of the Tsars...
...vast effort is being made to overcome the apathy and inertia of the people and the corruption of the government in order to develop the latent capacity of the people for social progress. Schools and museums have been founded, European ideas of justice have been introduced, and the country is flooded with translations of French and European books to the exclusion of native literature...
During the past five years about ten thousand books have been received by the authorities of the library annually. From this vast number only one half has been purchased, the other half being donated by publishing houses and private individuals in this country and abroad. Often a single book is presented, and it is not a rare occurrence when whole libraries are given. Within a few months, Mr. Winsor has been the recipient, for the University, of two large collections of very great value. The Hon. Samuel A. Green, of the class of '51, has just given six hundred books...
...Sanford, L. S; closed for the afflrmative. The inherent quality of trusts is the turning over by the owners of vast amounts of property into the hands of a few practically irresponsible men. All transactions are secret, and there is no effective method of judicial control. Pools and corporations are public contracts, and are thus under the control of the laws. A law should be passed by Congress, that all combinations giving property to trustees shall be incorporated with charters, and obliged to publish their a ccounts. Upon information filed by the attorney general of any state that any corporation...
...northern part of Arabia is occupied by vast sandy deserts, which are inhabited by the roving Bedouin tribes. The Bedouins love the wild, untrammelled freedom of desert life, and despise the dwellers in the cities. Hence it is not surprising that only two cities, Mecca and Medina, exist within their borders. The three characteristics of the Arab race are, tribal isolation, love of poetry, and utter lack of religion. Union of the scattered tribes was impossible, and the people remained dormant for centuries, on account of the lack of combined effort. War was the business life and poetry the only...