Word: vastly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opulent glow of El Morocco's Champagne Room in Manhattan, sat a swarthy pop-eyed man with a vast double chin. His companion was a beautiful young woman. "My dear," he was heard to say, "you just don't know what I could...
...Skilled scientists and industrial engineers were at a premium. But the Army had a mild, sharp-nosed little chemistry professor named Farrington Daniels, who took on the job of designing a full-sized nuclear reactor to produce power. By mid-1947, Daniels and his team were well into the vast problems confronting them. They reported that the basic difficulties should be solved within a year...
...that was how he painted it. For him the canyon-like streets flowed with pretty girls and hurrying men-a warm swirl of humanity that his quick brush (trained for newspaper illustration in the days before news photography), caught in full flood. At night he painted Manhattan's vast, far sparkle, and did it tenderly enough to make onlookers sense the million lives behind the million lights...
Like the Big Three of Mexico's revolutionary art (Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros), David thought painting should "contribute forcefully to the education of the public." The French Revolution and its aftermath gave him a chance to paint propaganda pictures for a vast new public, and a brand-new set of heroes and martyrs to portray. David sat in the National Convention, voted for Louis XVI's death, and eventually went into exile because of it, but not until he had tasted glory with Napoleon. Marat, Robespierre and Napoleon might seem a mixed and dubious cast to admire; to David...
...hero of Ape and Essence, as pallid as most of Huxley's heroes, is Dr. Alfred Poole, a mother-dominated scientist with a vast intellect and a recessive sex drive. On an expedition from New Zealand (one of the few spots, in the 22nd Century, that has escaped the atomic destruction of the Third World War), Dr. Poole discovers the remnants of a decayed civilization on the west coast of North America. In once proud and loud California there vegetates a sallow, stupefied tribe of helots whose technology is not much superior to that of the pre-Columbian Indians...