Word: much
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Teamed with socialite Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Juliana Force did as much as anyone to pull contemporary U.S. art out of the side streets of Greenwich Village and points east & west, place it in galleries where the public could see and admire it. For when Gertrude Whitney took a studio in the Village's MacDougal Alley in 1907, the plush offices of the Fifth Avenue art dealers were still cold to all but academicians. Museums would not look twice at the work of naturalist painters such as John Sloan and William Glackens, who were sneeringly referred...
Long before Luther, writes Father Lortz, "there existed in the Catholic Church herself much that foreshadowed the Reformation . . . In other words, the so-called 'causes' of the Reformation had their origin within the limits of the Catholic Church . . . That means the Reformation had important Catholic roots...
Instead of tuning in the networks' "outstanding" games of the week, most U.S. football fans would much rather listen to local broadcasts so they can root for their favorite teams...
...Russians wished to keep their bomb from sending up telltale dust, they could have exploded it deep in some Siberian lake. The second Bikini test bomb (Test Baker), which exploded underwater, did not raise much of a cloud. Most of its dust was carried back into the lagoon by a deluge of radioactive water...
...mummy, one of 400 discovered in the dry soil of the Paracas Peninsula, did not look like much. It was a pumpkin-shaped bundle of coarse brown cloth some 5 ft. in diameter. No one could tell what was in it. Other such likely-looking mummy bundles have turned out to contain beans...