Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This vast stream of meteors, which requires '33 years to make one trip around the sun, should be visible at its fullest in 1932. If the earth is to see them three years hence, beginning tomorrow night a few of the meteors should be visible. The stream is so rich that it takes several years to pass a fixed point, and if the old schedule is restored the earth center of the stream should come along...
...Lamont tomorrow, and many an achievement of his 18 years with Morgan would have a historic value. To him came the financing of the New York Central Railroad and he is today the firm's chief railroad adviser. To him came most of the overseas muddles into which its vast foreign interests plunged the Morgan house. In China (the Consortium), Mexico (International Committee), France (Anglo-French $500,000,000 loan), Austria (1923 joint loan), he has been at one time or another the most important financial factor. When these and many another nation gather together, as at Versailles...
...sickly boy was born in the Ghetto at Leghorn, Tuscany, to Flaminio Modigliani, son of a Roman usurer. The boy was named Amedeo which means "love of God." Under the guidance of his uncle Isaac described by one of his family as "a man of vast and disorderly culture" and a descendant of Philosopher Spinoza, Amedeo grew up, studious, passionate, grave. When he was 14 he had typhoid fever and in his delirium raved about the Renaissance, his longing to become a painter. This was the first indication of his esthetic bent. His mother, impressed, promised that he should...
Borne off to jail, straight-jacketed, he told the wardens he was a millionaire, would pay them vast sums for his freedom...
...subject to two inherent and stubborn difficulties. The first is the Asiatic complex. Anything approaching world confederation must take account of the two enormous aggregations of population in India and China, which together include about half the human race. No world union is possible so long as this vast population might out-vote the rest of the globe. The second difficulty is that, if the majestic idea of a vast federation is actually carried out in Europe, two of the most important units must he omitted. The first of them is Russia. Five-sixths of the population of that Soviet...