Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thoroughly part of radio art is Bergen's clever line, for which his alma mater, Northwestern University, in 1937 awarded Charlie the honorary degree of Master of Innuendo and Snappy Comeback. An assistance also is the fact that Charlie's person, due to his vast press, is almost as well known to radio listeners as his sage, snide, bored voice. Charlie and Bergen collect $100,000 a year from the sale of dolls, gadgets, silverware and other copies of cocky Charlie...
...royalty and representatives of reigning royalty filled the stands and ramps of St. Peter's when a glittering procession moved into the Basilica. Attendants waved great ostrich-feather fans, as the frail Holy Father, deathly pale, entered seated on his high sedia gestatoria (portable throne), garbed in a vast white cope...
...Some years ago Einstein visited California's Mt. Wilson Observatory, which houses under a vast rotatable dome the largest (100-inch) operating telescope in the world. Einstein was standing on a horizontal flange attached to the dome, when an astronomer flipped a switch and the dome began to turn, Einstein with it. The physicist did not realize that he was moving. Like most visitors subjected to the same experience, it seemed to him that he was stationary, that the whole central well of the observatory (solidly anchored through concrete pillars to bedrock) was turning in the opposite direction...
...most important terms of the agreement are the arrangements for a vast extension of credits by the United States to Brazil, and the latter's agreement to free its foreign exchange for commercial transactions. Here is a country with a large German population, loaded down with Nazi propaganda, which decided that the best hope for economic improvement lay in the establishment of a free exchange market. It means that Germany which has had a steadily growing Brazilian trade through her barter arrangements and use of restricted foreign exchange, will find Brazilian market's open to other countries, especially...
What City Hall sees is a vast tax-exempt "inland Empire," assessed at $164,298,020, more than the total taxable value of Cambridge, White the city provides police, fire, and health protection, ever since the opening of the subway much of Harvard's, purchasing power, once a Cambridge monopoly, has been shifted to Boston. Moreover, it has been charged that the House system has cut into-the local restaurant and boarding-house trade...