Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...necessarily glamorous job of reporting, observing, analyzing-and thinking-about the news. But at times, perhaps more often than the reporters for most other publications, they have a story that leads to real adventure. Such was the case with this week's color-picture story on the vast, wild Amazon River basin...
...somewhat visionary or even fanciful approach to the future as well as a conventional one." New approaches to knowledge are as out of this world as the moon itself. Its airless environment and its fantastic temperature range make an ideal laboratory for high-vacuum and cryogenic (refrigerants) research; the vast amounts of solar energy, if properly harnessed on the moon, might be used to affect or control the earth's weather...
...Velvet Glove. In any Cabinet under any President, the Secretary of the Treasury wields great power and carries grave responsibilities. He oversees the vast, intricate flow and ebb of the billions of dollars that the U.S. Government takes in and pays out. He is charged with managing the $290 billion national debt, a task in which small errors can be costly. But Robert Anderson's power and influence extend far beyond the statutory scope of his office, broad as that is. By force of mind and personality, Anderson molds politics that reach into every niche of the U.S. Government...
...darkest days of World War I, about the only consolation that fell to the Belgians was the capture in Africa of two small and scenically beautiful German territories on the eastern border of the vast Belgian Congo. Thereafter, first under a League of Nations mandate and then under the U.N., Belgium continued to rule Ruanda and Urundi through a master tribe of willowy African giants named the Watutsis. The Watutsis had been for four centuries the lords of the Land of the Mountains of the Moon, and there seemed little reason why they should not continue...
...such as geology and oceanography-seem to be pretty good, and Professor (of Engineering) Albert Dietz of M.I.T. was impressed by a research institute on the outskirts of Moscow devoted to pure research on concrete. The lab had developed a completely automated machine that produced concrete units on a vast assembly line controlled by a single man pushing buttons. But Dietz felt that the Russians are sacrificing quality for speed. They are producing an enormous number of concrete apartment houses by such techniques, says Dietz, "but they're building a lot of maintenance problems...