Word: vastnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lower California, in the desolate volcanic waste near Punta Baja, Edward H. Davis of the Museum of the American Indian (Manhattan), found vast caverns decorated with mural paintings. In one cave the ceiling bristled with arrows shot into it at least 500 years ago. Carved stone vessels and long-walled lanes through the lava floes indicated high culture among the Cochimi, Guaycuru and Pericue Indians whom Spanish travelers reported finding on that lonely coast in the 16th Century. Ethnologist Davis judged that these tribes were gigantic in stature...
...sentimental letters urging you to do this are but another example of that fundamentally tyrannical spirit - distressingly on the increase in our country - which would have a man eat, drink, sleep, think, wear a blue band on his straw hat, exactly as his neighbors. . . . Vast waves of mechanical thinking. . . . There is no need to "square yourselves," as has been suggested. Your motives are clear, perfectly decent, and justified - to those who will take a little trouble to think...
...quickly, Super-Reporter Lewis was brought forward to make observations beyond the power of liners," workaday wrote hacks. the "Dozens of air Super-Reporter, "with their vast wings of corrugated metal, monstrous as pterodactyls, field." wallowed on the macadam field...
Frank R. Henderson, president. New York Rubber Exchange, last week accepted as fact a report of vast latex* production from rubber trees cultured in the Dutch East Indies. Buds of exceptional rubber trees had been grafted into trees that normally yielded but three or four pounds of rubber a year. After bud grafting the trees, by report, began to yield enormously, in some cases 100 pounds a year. At such report Arthur A. Judd, writer for the Chicago Journal of Commerce, scoffed: "The exchange president's report on the outcome of the experiment smacks of the fairy tale. Trees...
...powerful trilogy of forces ceaselessly exert themselves to oust the bespectacled Doctor; and therefore he won a momentous point last week, by securing the extension of his contract. Against him are the old, vastly rich Persian families whom he has taxed; secondly, the many politicians whose powers he has curbed through controlling their salaries; and lastly, the numerous agents of Soviet Russia in Persia who have thoroughly satisfied themselves that Dr. Millspaugh is the chief agent of a vast Anglo-U. S. conspiracy to seize the oil and opium lands of Persia. The Doctor, although thus powerfully opposed, has greatly...