Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called it. The Burmese have also had their business disenchantments with their cynical Communist trading partners. Despite fine promises of the latest machinery and steel, all the Russians ever sent them in barter for their rice was cement-so much cement that all Rangoon could not hold it. and vast quantities of it were ruined on the docks by monsoon rains (TIME, May 21). Most insulting of all, the Russians and Chinese began selling off their Burmese rice in Burma's own best markets. Said U Nu bitterly last month: "Anybody who goes into a barter deal when...
...theory that the weakest spot in American culture today is an almost total lack of true creative thinking. We have become a nation of improvers, adjusters, takers-apart, putters-together, dissectors, bisectors, inspectors, assemblers and reassemblers. The average American proudly thumps his breast, pointing with complacency to our vast quantity of technologically "superior" wealth. Where are the minds to match the intellectual curiosity of Edison, Marconi, Alexander Bell, Henry Ford or the Wright brothers...
...great and good work, are unsafe in a democracy. He calls himself a democrat and a socialist, and no doubt he does so in all earnestness, but every psychologist knows that the mind is ultimately slave to the heart . . . Jawahar has all the makings of a dictator in him-vast popularity, a strong will, ability, hardness, an intolerance for others and a certain contempt for the weak and inefficient... Is it not possible that Jawahar might fancy himself as a Caesar...
...there are no galaxies made of antimatter, the cosmologists should try to explain why they do not exist. An explanation is relatively easy for those cosmologists who believe the universe was formed in a vast, single explosion. "The universe," explains Professor Frisch,"must have been very dense at first, and annihilation would have weeded out all but one kind of matter." But for those who hold that matter is being created continuously in space between the galaxies, the antiproton is more of a problem. Their theory will have to explain, says Professor Frisch, why only one kind of matter...
...annual Conference on Aging, the only such regular meeting in the country, 700 experts from the medical and social sciences put their heads (many greying) together to see what could be done in making Browning's vision a reality. The consensus: there must be imaginative and vast new developments on the social and economic fronts to forestall a future crisis of aged in the U.S., and the major attack on the problems of aging must be medical. That is the key to the others...