Then one day in April, Ms. Jordan heard back from a developer she had called in September about a 44,000-square-foot lot at Third Avenue and 172nd Street, practically around the corner from the school's current home, and a few blocks from Crotona Park, with its vast ball fields.
According to The Quietus, "a stomping piano and the steady smack of kickdrum anchors the ghostly crowd noise from a vast débutantes ball, as the synths quiver both nauseously and as subtly as candle-smoke in a floor draft".
She had no choice but to accept my diagnosis, the vast ball causing her to squirm uncomfortably in her chair.
Quite a few of the things I bought, including a vast and hairy ball of string, bigger than a football, are sidling into homes here with us.
To do that, software has been created to track players as they chase balls in a multitude of directions across a vast field, not simply tracking a ball in the predictable path from the pitcher's mound to home plate, the way Pitchf/x does.
The battlefield had seen Nuer fight Nuer before: among the still-bleeding corpses were scattered human vertebrae and clean-picked skulls, like golf balls on a vast green fairway.
Thanks to computer modelling and wind-tunnel testing, the Brazuca ball designed by Adidas for the 2014 World Cup, now underway in Brazil, is the best yet—and certainly a vast improvement over the disastrous Jabulani ball Adidas provided for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
Line drives become hits a vast majority of the time, and ground balls do so more often than fly balls; so high line-drive and ground-ball rates are strong indicators of a good average on balls in play.
But Duncan was a vast improvement over the collective clanking of the ball off the Mets' iron gloves that often make it feel like 1962 all over again.
