Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...City Hall cat, which lapped up six dollars and fifty cents' worth of milk last year. The city administration is aghast at this peculation of the public funds. Why cannot Robert, the cat, eat the scraps from the janitor's table and save the common people all this vast expenditure? cry the city fathers. The Mayor has ordered a "sweeping investigation," a "drastic inquiry" into this barefaced attempt to pick the public's pocket. Altogether the affair is pictured as the most scandalous thing since the Tweed Ring...
...vast number of people believe that the Senate is holding up in a most disgraceful manner the world's only chance for a permanent peace based on international justice. It is not only the privilege, but the duty of those people to make their will felt. A petition of "absolute faith" would tend to sweep away the very foundations of Democracy...
...France. Mexico has been a thorn not only in our side, but in that of Europe as well. The latter will soon reach the limit of their patience. Our much-touted Monroe Doctrine is going to be an embarrassment to any administration we may elect. Euro-pen countries, with vast war debts to pay off and rich consecrations is Mexico are likely to suggest that they go in and make that turbulent nation safe for their investments. The Monroe Doctrine forbids such an encroachment on the Western Hemisphere, but the United States is going to have a hard time convincing...
...road our cars took to get there was lined with a huge crowd who cheered ceaselessly for the King and Queen, and, as we reached the vast gardens of the University, a thousand persons, most of whom were students almost deafened the royal guests by the noise of their reception...
...President does not hedge on the issues facing the nation; there is no beating around the bush. He suggests the budget system as a vital need in this time of vast expenditures. The necessity of such a system has been long realized; it has been blocked right along by the "pork-barrel" specialists in the House. The question of simplified income taxes shows that while the President has been in the sick-bed he has not lost the "common touch." He comes out in favor of a tariff revision that will enable foreign countries to pay off their vast debts...