Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...owed much to the stone it came from-a 4-ft.-high slab of onyx. Pocked with chisel marks, it successfully simulated the feathery plunge of the bird; polished, it represented the wet scales of the fish. Der Harootian had deliberately exaggerated the size of the fish and taken vast liberties with the shape of the bird. The fact that they seemed far less abstract than they were in actuality was a measure of the sculptor's power to create illusion without slavish copying...
...time in absorbing detail. Here is London, aflame with nightly blazes but vigorously "adapting itself to the new peculiar conditions of existence or death," the factories in which "men and women toiled at the lathes . . . till they fell exhausted on the floor and had to be dragged away," the "vast intricate systems of fortifications . . . antitank obstacles, blockhouses," the secret rooms in which hidden scientists fought the "wizard war" of radar...
...last major barrier to final passage of a vast housing program appeared to be crumbling yesterday when a leading house opponent indicated foes may be about ready to call off the fight. Rep. Jesse Wolcott (R-Mich.), who led the successful opposition last year, said "I don't think we will be able to stop it now." Two more of the Truman administration's prime legislative goals--a now labor bill and federal aid to education--are due for showdown tests in Congress this week...
...Library of Congress, as usual, has many openings in its vast staff, which includes everything from experts in paleontology to researches in Orientalia, as well as those with the more standard librarian duties...
Buster Crabbe's Aquaparade of 1949 is frankly an experiment to see if a water show can travel from city to city successfully, an experiment to see it swimmers can crack the vast market now held jointly by the circus, the roller skating derbies, and the ice revues...