Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Water & Power. The $31,000,000 Republican Dam, which Pick expects to have finished in 1950, will open up 90,000 acres to irrigation, boost farmers' income an estimated $2.5 million a year. That is only a small piece of the whole vast undertaking which covers an area bigger than France, Spain and Italy combined...
...Office of Tourism hopefully announced that the season was in full swing. But the opening's aftermath was a sorry letdown. Last week, liveried flunkies and white-tied M.C.s stood at their posts in the Casino, ready to bow like diplomats; but on the ballroom's vast parquet just one couple did their stuff and only a few new-rich lingered over the green baize tables. In the main, Deauville had reverted to its 5,000 year-round inhabitants...
...textiles for the Army so skillfully that rationing of civilian clothing was averted. He got out of the Army shortly after Dick Mellon, 47, who had also served as a colonel and also won a D.S.M. Dick Mellon had some ideas about a new job for Denton and the vast Mellon interests...
...going their way; as leaders of a socialist state with a Communist goal, they regard themselves as the advance agents of manifest destiny. In Poland* and the Balkans they believe that they are helping manifest destiny along, although the resistance is terrific from the "unenlightened," who are in a vast majority...
...self-educated farmer's son (who has a vast repertory of Czech folk songs, wears caps instead of hats and loves his family), Gottwald had worked and waited for this moment. There was no doubt about how the new tenant would like to run things. Communist Gottwald's philosophy of politics might well have been inspired by the words of St. Clement (Rome's fourth Pope), after whom his pious family had named him: "Discipline and subordination are necessary as in an army . . . for man is nothing...