Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year the University produced five Rhodes Scholars, two Marshall Scholars, and 16 recipients of Fulbright grants. A vast majority of the Fulbright applicants desired study in England, but the largest number of winners, four, picked Germany...
...would be paradoxical for University students who prize academic freedom and student welfare to stay outside an organization that has such vast potential for advancing these ideals in less fortunate student communities. Whatever unattractiveness there is to Harvard students in being represented in a national association with other American students should be outweighed by the unique, and in these times momentuous, opportunities available through NSA. Harvard's influence as an eminent academic institution would both strengthen the Association and make the University's membership fruitful; students should vote to rejoin...
...does not know where his next penury is coming from. For years he kept a diary in which he jotted down every $2.70 dinner check, including "35? for ice cream." He has homes in California and Italy, but rarely uses them, prefers instead to run his vast Middle Eastern oil interests (TIME cover, Feb. 24, 1958) from the cheapest two-room suites in Paris' George V and London's Ritz Hotel. He has no personal servant, and it takes a nimble bellhop to beat the billionaire out of carrying his own bags...
Last week Getty set London abuzz with what seemed at first glance an amazing about-face. He announced that he was buying the Duke of Sutherland's vast Sutton Place mansion* on an estate near Woking, 23 miles from London (14 principal bedrooms. 20 servants' rooms, 16 baths, 140-ft. ballroom, 140-ft. library, and Great Hall with minstrels' balcony). Price for the house plus swimming pool, nine-hole golf course and 174 acres of parkland: a Getty secret, but probably well over...
Criticizing the present system of legal education, Griswold asserted, "What we ought to be teaching is how to go about attacking and resolving new problems, not the specific details about a vast number of problems which happen to be current now." Students, he warned, should realize "that we are not teaching them everything about everything...