Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like to get out and yodel. They also blow ten-foot Alphorns made from fir logs, build houses with high roofs typical of the Swiss Alps, talk a Schweizer-deutsch patois, hang sweet-chiming Swiss bells around the necks of their innumerable brown Swiss cows, and produce vast quantities of Swiss cheese and Swiss lace...
Spare rooms were made ready, Swiss dishes cooked for thousands of American-Swiss visitors. For four days there were parades, fireworks, community singing and a great tooting of Alphorns. Climax of the celebration was a vast, open-air pageant in which some 120 townspeople took part. It dramatized New Glarus' 101-year history (the centennial was postponed because of the war), and told many a non-Swiss spectator a lot about Swiss tenacity, stubbornness and good humor...
...most Jews in Palestine, and beyond in the vast Diaspora, last week looked like the eve of Armageddon, the decisive battle for national life...
What is the best treatment for a burn? The Chinese swear by tea. U.S. doctors, who have argued loudly about the subject for more than 20 years, have tried a vast variety of applications, including tannic acid (a component of tea), silver nitrate, hormone ointment, triple aniline dyes, sulphur water, cold water, ice, and a concoction of paraffin wax, sulfanilamide, menthol, camphor, vaseline and cod liver oil, the whole topped off by oil of eucalyptus to kill the smell...
That was Charlie's time to show his ace in the hole. What he wanted, he blandly revealed, was the sum that Transamerica Corp., aging A.P. Giannini's vast holding company, had offered him and his colleagues. (Transamerica's deadpan explanation: "It has very good earnings and it is a well-managed company. We want the stock for an investment.") National, according to an agreement, has the right to match this offer...