Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...intelligence of the nation cannot be raised, we cannot expect wise action on the part of the whole people in the complicated problems of modern democratic life, if their schooling is meagre formal, and sterile. At present, the vast majority of the children of this country receive less than six years of schooling, and what they receive is often not well ordered or given by effective, modern methods...
Harvard football has been launched successfully again and under difficulties which it is easy to underestimate. Coach Fisher himself was called upon at the eleventh hour last spring to take over Mr. Haughton's position as held coach. He was confronted with a vast squad in September, men for the most part unknown and untried in college football. That he and Captain Murray were able to develop the mature football displayed by Harvard in Saturday's game is a truly remarkable feat...
...first great development in aviation here should be the establishment of a large number of well-appointed landing places along the important trade routes. The vast majority of flying accidents are caused by the lack of good landing places. If, for example, it could be made possible for a pilot flying from Boston to New York to be never out of gliding distance of a sufficiently large and even landing ground the danger of the flight would be practically eliminated...
...this state we had a striking example only a few weeks ago of a vast majority of sober citizens refusing to be stampeded into doing something that was wrong, even by illusory promises. While it is by no means to be denied that some kinds of radicalism are fully as valuable and desirable as some kinds of conservatism, the people of Massachusetts showed that the kind of radicalism that was offered them was not the kind they wanted; and what was more, they purposed to show the country just where the great mass of the citizenry stood on the matter...
...pockets; liberality takes on another aspect when it means increased taxation. Much of the present unrest is due to the mistaken attitude of large groups towards the government. War time salaries, lavish expenditures for material, and railroad concessions have caused these people to look upon Congress as one vast mint anxious to rid itself of money. Surely additional gifts will cause the strengthening of this alarming belief...