Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pain, most doctors believe, is a good thing in small doses. It is often the only warning of some invisible internal disorder. But Dr. Angelo Luigi Soresi, onetime professor of surgery at New York's old Homeopathic Medical College and Flower Hospital, disagrees with the vast majority of his colleagues. Pain, he insists, is not a physiological (and therefore ' normal) sensation, but pathological-experienced only after a breakdown somewhere in the nervous system. Pain cannot be normal, Soresi argues, because he does not believe that receptors for pain have been found among the nerve endings...
...theory has the same obvious chink as the theory of democracy. With very rare exceptions, Negroes are kept out. There are, however, some 800,000 Negroes practicing the rites, the vast majority of them in what are known as Prince Hall Grand Lodges. At least two Negro lodges, one in New Jersey, and one in Massachusetts, can lay claim to the legitimacy of their charters; the others, white Masons insist, are "clandestine" lodges, neither bona fide nor legitimate...
...mistress, Igea Lissoni, a former dancer and nightclub worker. Igea attributes her good fortune to the prophecy of a Milan fortuneteller, who two years ago told her she would meet the man of her dreams in Capri. Igea hastened forthwith to Capri, and there met Lucky Luciano, whose vast suite took up half of a floor in the island's best hotel...
That night, Nehru went to Calcutta's vast central park, the Maidan, to address a crowd of 600,000 (a rival meeting called by leftists boycotting Nehru drew only 1,000). As he ascended the speakers' platform, a loud explosion sounded on the outskirts of the crowd. A bomb, meant for Nehru, had exploded along the route he had just taken, killing one policeman, wounding four other persons...
Last week 20th Century Venice was a dingy shadow of such glories. But in 16 rooms of the vast Palace of the Doges, now an art museum, Venetians and tourists could get a glimpse of Venice at its noontime brightest...