Word: dwarf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walter and the Viennese gave six rousing concerts last week and managed to dwarf what had gone before...
...back up the State Department with funds, the plan would be turned into a gigantic boomerang. The stock of the United States would sink to an as yet unplumbed depth. And this is by no means an inconceivable possibility, for the appropriations involved will be staggering. They will dwarf the two and a quarter billions spent on UNRRA. The Second Session of the Eightieth Congress may be more than somewhat reluctant to dig so deeply into the nation's pocket at a time when it will be mainly preoccupied with jockeying for position in the All America Sweepstakes of November...
...Princeton's Henry Morris Russell, 69, grey, wispy-haired professor of astronomy. One of the world's leaders in his field, he developed a way of measuring movement of stars by photography, established giant and dwarf star groups, was one of two Princeton men to win doctorates in physics summa cum laude. Professor Russell once predicted that, in about a billion years, the earth's atmospheric oxygen will be used up, and in a few billion more "the universe will be thoroughly uninteresting...
...asking the Congress to vote him $400,000,000 with which to aid Greece and Turkey in the ensuing fifteen months. He was asking that the United States embark upon a gigantic "containing operation" of the Soviet Union, a program whose vastness both in time and money dwarf completely the expenditure and time limit he cited...
...sharp tongue (he once described Novelist Sir Walter Scott as "a dwarf who is determined not to lose an inch of his stature"), his always unexpected views ("It gives one somewhat the desire to be buried," he remarked on seeing the tombs of Machiavelli and Michelangelo), his dogmatic epigrams ("The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist") won him a drawing-room notoriety that his face and figure could never have...