Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White Ensign of Britain's Royal Navy, which had flown for 162 triumphant years over the vast Trincomalee naval station on Ceylon's east coast, came fluttering down its flagstaff for the last time. In its place, proud Ceylonese raised the Golden Lion of Ceylon's own navy. In the harbor, Her Majesty's cruiser Ceylon, the 8,781-ton flagship of Britain's once-mighty East Indies squadron, paused momentarily to exchange naval courtesies with the inward-bound Vijaya, a hastily reconditioned 13-year-old British minesweeper, which is the only "capital" ship...
...quiet, young (43), round-faced Alberta oil millionaire last week became the largest single stockholder in Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Ltd., the vast and controversial enterprise that will bring Western gas to Eastern Canada. In Manhattan, Calgary Oilman Robert Arthur Brown Jr. bought the last of Tennessee Gas Transmission Co.'s Trans-Canada holdings, giving his fast-rising Home Oil Co. Ltd. a 12% holding in Trans-Canada (v. Texas Oilman Clint Murchison's 8%. and British American Oil's 5%). By buying out Tennessee at upwards of $25 a share, Bobby Brown replaced Tennessee...
Much of John Conway's personality can be understood in terms of his great love for the "emptiness" of the great Canadian Northwest. This area, where he has lived--canoeing, camping, and working at logging camps during the summer--is famed for its natural grandeur. But its quiet, vast peacefulness is nonetheless instinct with a sometimes awesome vitality...
...Economics professor charged the Administration with failing "to keep its budgetary expenditures within its promises of 1952 by 15 to 25 billion dollars," and stated that it "continued to lend and guarantee vast sums of money, even as in 1953 and 1955-57 the Treasury and the Federal Reserve were inducing tight money...
...work freely on their own, and as much of the effort was of a military and secret nature, scientific tasks were divided up by the [scientific] administrators into small pieces, and scientists were employed for very specific purposes." Result: the individual scientist was not only unaware of the vast, basic problem he was dealing with, but his curiosity about the problem was often discouraged. "The secrecy of military effort merely reinforced a growing policy of secrecy on the part of the commercial firms who regarded the intellectual aspects of scientific progress as secondary to the task of getting ahead...