Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never saw a pencil until he was ten, but when he did finally get his hands on one he knew just what to do with it; he had practiced drawing with a ski pole in the snow. Drawing came naturally to Skum: he had a photographic memory of the vast white landscapes he moved through and of the runty reindeer he moved after. And Skum always had an uncanny feeling for the one thing most artists have to learn from other people's pictures-perspective. But until he got too old and fat to camp comfortably, Skum found little...
Although the nearest source of female talent is the Connecticut College for Women in New London, most Elis prefer the offerings of Smith, Vassar, or the vast and varied resources of New York City. New Haven is a poor town for entertainment, night life being limited to beer drinking at Mory's for members and at the Old Heidelberg for non-members, chow at George and Harry's, and indoor athletics at the Hotel Grade. On weekday nights the students must content themselves with a movie, an occasional play, or a racy meeting of the Political Union...
...worked simultaneously on several other acoustical projects also sponsored by the super-secret Office of Scientific Research and Development. Stevens, whose work is now partially sponsored by the Navy, has brought his research work practically to a standstill as he has taken over de facto direction of the vast reconstruction of the main part of the Memorial hall basement into psychological and physiological laboratories which will go into operation sometime in January or February under Edwin G. Boring, professor of Psychology...
Traubel likes to sing with Melchior because his size dwarfs hers. To dress her own vast proportions as handsomely as possible, Traubel has all her clothes-including her stage costumes-designed by Hollywood's Adrian. In the sewing room of Adrian's chic pastel salon, there is a headless and barrel-chested, size 46, grey muslin model standing majestically between those of Claudette Colbert, size 32, and Norma Shearer, size 32. Adrian's loose-leaf notebook lists the Traubel specifications after those for "Temple, Shirley." They tell a sizable story: "Bust, 51 inches [Shirley...
...book is filled with the stench of dead horses and dead men rotting on the vast Ukrainian plain. Malaparte was in Jassy on the night of the pogrom when 7,000 Jews were killed in the streets. He was allowed to visit the Warsaw brothels whose girls the Germans killed after a short period to replace them with fresh victims. There are chilling pictures of the Warsaw ghetto...