Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franks lacks Reading's vast experience of affairs. Lothian's enthusiasm and Halifax's impelling warmth. But Franks is in his own right an interesting specimen of homo britannicus. As a friend summed him up recently: "Franks believes passionately in the Sermon on the Mount, but he does not think that, unaided by men of intelligence like himself, the Sermon can do it all alone...
Tottering on the pinnacle of this tower of Babel stands English, the language of the modern intelligentsia, business community and bureaucracy. More than a century ago there had been a nip & tuck d'ebate among India's British masters over a practical official language for their vast colony...
...English farrier, astronomy which would move laughter in girls at an English boarding school, history abounding with kings 30 feet high and reigns 30,000 years long, and geography made up of seas of treacle and seas of butter . . ." He had acclaimed English as the key "to all the vast intellectual wealth which all the wisest nations of the world have created and hoarded in the course of 90 generations...
...other hand, the huge U.S. oil industry, which had thought last spring that the boom was over, changed its mind. The vast production of new cars, diesel engines, oil heaters, etc. had swelled oil demand so much that the U.S. Bureau of Mines forecast greater demand this year than last. The bright outlook caused oil shares to pace the recent stock market upswing. The market got a new lift this week from the prospect of a settlement of the steel wage dispute (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In the first day's trading, steel shares gained as much as a point...
...supply the huge demand made by the advertisers on America's vast reservoir of beauty, the highly specialized and erratic model business has materialized. An appendage of advertising, model agencies combine the ethics of theatrical agents with the esthetics of bathing beauty judges...