Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...genteel 18th Century into which it was born, Pittsburgh was the essence of a frontier culture, which it has never quite managed to shake. In recent years it has been jeeringly called an esthetic abortion, a municipal hovel, a mining town on a vast scale. It gobbled up people the way it gobbled up iron ore-people with the names of Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Poland, Italy, Hungary, Yugoslavia. Some 1,000,000 of them lived and worked in the city's whole industrial complex, some 700,000 lived within the city's limits...
...window-dressing: Moscow had spurned the U.S. offer for such a pact over Germany three years ago. The atomic-ban talk, as Britain's Ernie Bevin bluntly put it, was stupid; again & again, the U.S. had proposed genuine international control by a U.N. atomic-energy commission, and a vast Assembly majority approved the U.S.-backed plan (TIME, Dec. 20). But the Russians, while piously asking all nations to take the pledge and outlaw atomic weapons, 1) insisted that the U.S. chuck its whole stockpile before anything further was done about control; 2) flatly rejected a stringent system of international...
...vast 1947 project suggested the razing of many existing business structures, the rerouting of Massachusetts Avenue along Mt. Auburn Street (see map), and the elimination of what is now Harvard Square. A multi-unit shopping center under one roof would then be constructed (F on map). Each merchant would hold shares in this redevelopment project, entitling him to store space in the new all-weather shopping center...
With the aid of-its vast mechanical memory for numbers and commands, the machine can solve in a flash a complicated equation involving thousands of numbers and thousands of operations. It can do its trick tirelessly, over & over again, varying one or more of the factors in the equation. It prints the result (e.g. the range of a naval shell at different gun elevations) in the form of a neat table, as fast as electric typewriters can rattle the figures out. To do a comparable job by hand would take an army of trained mathematicians...
With the aid of-its vast mechanical memory for numbers and commands, the machine can solve in a flash a complicated equation involving thousands of numbers and thousands of operations. It can do its trick tirelessly, over & over again, varying one or more of the factors in the equation. It prints the result (e.g. the range of a naval shell at different gun elevations) in the form of a neat table, as fast as electric typewriters can rattle the figures out. To do a comparable job by hand would take an army of trained mathematicians...