Word: vastnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most excellent qualities with large disadvantages. Perhaps the most excellent thing about Fine Arts 1d, at least for the ordinary undergraduate, is Professor Edgell; even at Harvard it is all too rare to have the opportunity of hearing a lecturer to whom it is a pleasure to listen. The vast majority of those who come to marvel that merely human flesh and blood can speak so rapidly, smoothly, and interestingly, remain for an hour under a species of trance in which scenes from the Mediaeval Renaissance and Modern masters flash before the eye to the accompaniment of a symphony--multo...
...second half year of German A, which may be taken in the following fall. Dr. Howe, who is in charge of German C, is a teacher of the old school and is one of the very few men who can make nearly bearable a course which the vast majority are taking merely to satisfy language requirements...
...year an All-American eleven. These were presumed to be the best eleven players in the land and the honor of belonging to the group was limitless. The selections were printed in nearly every important journal in the land; the advertisng value of selecting the official All-American was vast. So vast was it that various publications have since attempted to usurp it. Grantland Rice, widely syndicated sports writer for the New York Herald-Tribune, picks an eleven...
Republic Iron & Steel is itself a consolidation, accomplished in 1899, of 24 iron & steel companies. Once it made only steel bars. Now it makes diversified products. It has plants in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Alabama and Illinois, and iron or coal mines in Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Alabama and Pennsylvania. With vast steelmaking facilities, it lacks sufficient mills to finish its products. John Alexander Topping is chairman; Cyrus Stephen Eaton a director since last April. Mr. Eaton's joining Republic Iron & Steel was the first definite step towards last week's merger. He is Trumbull Steel's chairman...
...Bebe Daniels) kidnaps one Captain Colton (Richard Arlen). This, after a long interval of comic complications, leads to a war with the native Arabians who are repulsed by an adroit insertion of machina in machina. On the sandy screen of white desert dunes, Zaida causes a newsreel, showing a vast army on the march, to be projected. Not used to this kind of mirage, the Arabs surrender rapidly just before the newsreel begins to make battleships float along the Sahara. The surrender of the Arabs is almost coincidental with the final surrender of Captain Colton to the charms of Bebe...