Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roxas has a strong hold on the emotional Filipino. The vast majority of his countrymen thinks of him as a war hero, not as a collaborator (an opinion emphatically not shared by the acrid newspaper columns of ex-Interior Secretary Harold Ickes...
...Council will "represent" the largest undergraduate body in the history of the College. University Hall will rely on this group for an accurate appraisal of undergraduate opinion on housing, tutorial, and other pressing College problems. In addition, the individual student looks to the Council for wise administration of the vast sums publicly subscribed to its Student Council Fund. But as the average undergraduate quietly subscribes his seven dollars to the Council, he should become aware of the amazingly small share of democratic control he is allowed to exercise over this Council, of the pitifully small voice he actually...
From ancient Scythia, by way of Egypt,Crete and Spain, came the persecuted, wandering children of Gaodhal Glas in search of the Isle of Destiny. "I pray," sang their Gaelic bard Amergin, "that they reach the land of Eirinn, those who are riding upon the great, productive vast sea; that they be distributed upon her plains, her mountains and her valleys...
Mabel Caines Joell is a mighty mammal. Every day the breasts of this vast, friendly colored woman produce a quart of milk for her own thriving infant and more than another quart for Manhattan's Mothers' Milk Bureau...
...vast U.S. black market in meat has cut deep into stocks of insulin, adrenaline, liver concentrates, pituitary extracts and other vital drugs. Obvious reason: the behind-the-barn slaughterers throw away the organs and glands normally sold by regular packers to drug makers. Sample results: 1) a Schering Corp. agent combed Armour, Swift, Cudahy and Wilson for 200 lbs. of sheep pituitary, found just 22 lbs.; 2) American Home Products Corp., needing 1,000 lbs. of pancreas monthly, has been able to buy only 700 lbs. all year. Shortages are just short of dangerous...