Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...welfare statism. Today, social security-paid for by a flat 5% tax on all private and corporate income -includes state-paid old-age pensions, unemployment benefits, medical and hospital care. Industry is heavily regulated, trade unionism and industrial arbitration compulsory. Liberal and conservative governments have shared in the vast social experiments. But ever since the Labor Party took office in 1935, what had begun as a humanitarian drive gradually ossified into bureaucratic socialism...
...Beneath Greasy's casual air, his sharp wit and his superstitions (he insists on being last to leave the dining room when his men are eating, last to leave the clubhouse, last out of the bus), lies a vast store of football know-how. He knew the kind of T-football he wanted: a combination of great power and flawless execution. In nine seasons with the Eagles, that is the kind he has developed-the prettiest and most deadly T-formation in the business...
Christmas to the vast throngs is little more than a noisy excuse for meretricious salesmanship, for urging one & all to buy unwanted presents for their friends, to the profit of the dollar-hungry. For a month before the Feast, the cry is: 'Buy! Adeste Fideles. Nylons for your lady! . . . It Came Upon the Midnight Clear. What came, Mummy? Santa Claus, my dar-lings.' " So writes sharp-penned Canon Bernard Iddings Bell in the current Faith and Thought, bulletin of the Episcopal faculty and students at the University of Chicago. The deChristianizing of Christmas was also troubling other Christians...
These four factors have caused the imposition of a vast quantity of rules on undergraduate organizations. Precisely what these rules do--and whether they are justified--will be the subject of future editorials in this series...
...just a whistle stop on the Paulista Railroad until two foreigners arrived there in 1868. The foreigners were Colonel William H. Norris and his son Robert, unreconstructed U.S. rebels from Oglethorpe, Ga. Heartsick at the South's defeat, they had listened with interest to tales of Brazil, a vast country where slavery was still a respected institution and a gentleman planter could work his lands in peace and dignity...