Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said would not be lighted again in our time. Near by loomed the abandoned palace of one of man's highest hopes: the League of Nations. Around them lay a shattered Europe whose mood might be conveyed in the title of one of Delegate Georges Bernanos' books: Vast Cemeteries in the Moonlight...
Candidates will meet the members of their own class as well as upperclassmen. They will become acquainted with the officials of the University, and they will acquire a vast knowledge of the functioning of the University itself. The trips which will be made will enable four or more Freshmen to accompany the various teams to other colleges and schools...
...seemed about ready for a massive decision - whether to get all the way in or all the way out of China. The question: should the U.S. throw its full support behind Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government or permit China (with its nearly 500 million people and vast resources) to become, directly or indirectly, a Soviet satellite? From Nanking came reports that General George Marshall had asked for an updating of U.S. opinion of the Chinese situation and an estimate of probable popular reaction to various alternative U.S. moves...
James refused to draw any large conclusions about what this would mean for the U.S. and the world in the future. Wrote he: "When an ancient treasure of precious vessels, overscored with glowing gems and wrought, artistically, into wondrous shapes, has, by a prodigious process, been converted, through a vast community, into the small change, the simple circulating medium of dollars and 'nickels,' we can only say that the consequent permeation will be of values of anew order. Of what order we must wait...
Recent centuries, Stewart concludes, have brought vast changes in Man's control of the world, but no basic change in Man. "The great palace of the modern world" has to be built from "the same old kind of bricks ... no stronger . . . no more adaptable or beautiful. . . . Arguments about the decline of the individual ... I do not take too seriously. . . . When I see some boys cruising in their patched-up jalopy, they seem just as much in harmony with their world as any . . . young savage creeping up on a quail with his throwing-stick...