"A vast concourse of people," noted Mather, made their way to Salem for the event, his father among them.
The authorities are so determined to prevent crowds gathering that they have even fenced off a corner of the vast concourse, full of minor temples and Buddha statues, that surrounds the Shwedagon's golden stupa in Rangoon.
After his accident, Mr. Grimsley, a former competitive runner and a star of the Port Authority's basketball team, was embarrassed to find himself suddenly unable to keep pace with the thousands of other commuters in the vast concourse.
Hustle on over early some Sunday a.m. and fly your gasoline-powered airplane model round and round that vast vaulted concourse.
Rescuers had not ruled out the possibility that an area called the honeycomb, a vast underground concourse, might be intact, according to a police officer at the scene.
According to documents filed with the Planning Commission, the 33-story skyscraper would include an atrium at the corner of Seventh Avenue and 49th Street with an entrance to the subway as well as the vast underground concourse beneath Rockefeller Center to the east.
Only fifteen people at a time are allowed to climb the series of narrow, aluminum, safe-as-can-be-of-course-but-don't-try-and-tell-me-they're not-swaying ladders that lead, 116' later, to a loft-sized scaffold, which, for the next six or seven months, will hover just below the city's best-loved ceiling, the glory at the top of Grand Central Terminal's improbably vast main concourse.
His mother, legend has it, seized his severed head, drank his blood, and walked, surrounded by a vast keening concourse, carrying his dismembered body to be buried at Lislaughtin Abbey.
The tricky site, sandwiched between waterways, railway lines and vast elevated concourses, means this alien object isn't quite as elegantly resolved outside as within.
The largest expense was on the state-of-the art new subway stations, which are impressive with shiny new escalators, elevators to provide access for the disabled, vast open concourses without the ominous dark corners that made some stations so intimidating.
Suspected to have been financed by a lavish donation from Big Ice, Grand Central Terminal's vast vaulted main concourse will be transformed into an indoor skating arena complete with old-fashioned pipe organ and Strauss waltzes from December to March.
