Word: vastnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems over. It cannot be made to pay unless supported by government crutches. Always it is a hazardous gamble, depending on the turn of a tide or a rainfall in Russia. Scientists would make the farmer see his farm not as a source of food alone but as a vast storehouse of potential petroleum, paint, tiles, silk, synthetic lumber. Let him turn oat chaff, cottonseed hulls, corncobs into money to buy Fords, phonographs. New Products. Professor Orland Russell Sweeney, of Iowa State College, called the Corn Belt a great sponge soaking up the energy of the sun. Nowhere else...
...matter how diligent and honest the national moneymen may be, only part of the total actually spent will be reported to Congress. Vast wads of local money, to be spent not literally in buying votes but in paying precinct "workers" to round up their families and friends, pass from , unnamed donors to taciturn precinct bosses. This money is meant, usually, to ensure the election of local candidates. The national candidates benefit simultaneously but the money does not show on their books...
Fashion displays such as that at Deauville were explicitly condemned by a general pontification of last week from the Vatican's famed semi-official news organ Osservatore Romano. Lamenting for the Globe in general, Osservatore cried: "Immorality is still vast. Sufficient proof is afforded by the Press with its audacious articles and by fashions which are ever more bold and unseemly...
...Best of them all is Arsenical No. 130, in which tear gas aids and abets arsenic to destroy the trypanosomes, restoring the sufferer to normalcy. Dr. Clement C. Chesterman, who has spent years in the Belgian Congo, will cooperate with Pharmacologist Stratman-Thomas to turn the jungle into a vast clinic, inoculating thousands of infected natives and animals with the drugs. They will follow epidemics around Africa, maintaining a base at Leopoldville, Congo capital...
Columbus, it seems quite possible that the vast herds of horses were wiped out by a trypanosomal disease carried by the tsetse...