Word: vastly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven nights last week, in the vast, vaulted cavern of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, thousands of New Yorkers crowded in to get a feeling of the fear and hope and comfort of religion from the Rev. Bryan Green of Birmingham, England. Anglican Preacher Green was providing New York with a sight not seen there since the 1880s-a diocese-wide revival mission under the auspices of the Episcopal Church...
...work he created was a vast chronicle of the seizure of the land from the Indians by the French, the defeat of their "effete and cumbrous feudalism" by the English. In the final pages he discussed the defeat of England in turn by the colonies. His purpose was to inform the people of the struggles that had been necessary to win the continent for them, to warn them against the practices that had lost it for their predecessors...
Never had labor worn such an air of confident authority. For two years, it had felt like a man shouting into a dead mike. Last week, with the power full on, labor listened with vast satisfaction as its voice rolled across the land and echoed in the corridors of the White House itself...
Gallegos was held under protective custody in the Escuela Militar; other prominent Acción Democratistas fled to foreign embassies for sanctuary. Betancourt went into hiding. But the vast majority of the party's politicians and labor leaders were clapped into jail. Union funds were seized by the army. Newspapers were ordered to hew strictly to the army's line, and an almost continuous radio barrage of pro-junta propaganda helped to sell the coup to the country...
Died. George Francis Johnson, 91, co-founder and chairman of the board of the vast Endicott Johnson (shoe) Corp.; in Endicott, N.Y. An ex-shoemaker's apprentice who made good, Johnson spent most of his fortune on the welfare of his workers (his slogan: "a man who dies rich dies disgraced...