Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Weekly items reflected the activity of a vast if diffused part of the nation's business. In the Northwest they discussed gyppo logging shows. The Martha's Vineyard (Mass.) Vineyard Gazette grumbled about the price of fish: "The market, as we log the doings of last week, is plain lousy-prices dropped like a skate falling into an empty hold. Why? The Lord only knows. But Bay scallops continue to be small and high. . . . Hard up or hard down is the present motto of business...
Fenway Court contains Isabella Stewart Gardner's vast, ill-assorted art collection. Included among much of little or no value, are some of the finest Italian paintings in the country including a Simone Martini polytych, a small Giorgione, and Titian's "Rape of Europa." French and German portraits, Flemish tapestries, and oriental works are also discernible, and delightful, among the litter of Sargents, Sorollas, and Zorns...
...marked withdrawal from the brave notes of The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise, which opened the first U.N. meeting at San Francisco. As the delegates gathered in the old New York City World's Fair Building at Flushing Meadows, they beheld another omen. Dominating the vast, greenish Assembly Hall was an oddly contorted map of the world (in cartographer's lingo: "a north polar azimuthal equidistant projection") which made the U.S. and Canada look relatively normal while the rest of the troubled planet was either upside down or misshapen...
Modern science has developed dozens of new pain killers (novocaine, spinal blocks, cyclopropane, sodium pentothal, etc.), but ether is still safest and best. Enthusiastic centennial speakers noted that anesthesia has brought many boons to man besides easier human surgery: e.g., it made possible a vast amount of painless experimentation on animals. Now, said Dr. Beecher, a "second power" of anesthesia is emerging-the power of probing the human mind. "With anesthetic agents we seem to have a tool for producing and holding at will different levels of consciousness-a tool that promises to be of great help in studies...
...vast pre-war array of hit music emporiums in this puritanical city, only the Savoy, on a moderate re-bop kick, and occasionally the Rio, featuring at present Andy Kirk and his atomic guitarist, Floyd Smith, are rocking to any other beat than three quarter time. Gone are the days when the respective hearts of the Boston Jazz Society, the Copley Terrace, the Ken, Maxie's, and the Tic-Toc were young and gay. O tempore, O mores! Some of us can be found of a gloomy week day eve crying in our beer at the Show Time where...