Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brother-in-law's sister, who had been in New York City for 14 years. Ava knew that Anna Sobel had married an American doctor, but she did not know his name. Last week, 28-year-old Ava, a refugee from the Nazi invaders of Poland, visited the vast, murmurous city room of the New York Times, looking for help. It was her last hope...
Bush noted that a danger of starvation exists, but said that investigations into the nature of photosynthesis may well make it possible to produce protein and carbohydrates synthetically. Russell asked "alarmists" to "look at vast...lands with rich soils and abundant water" that still remain to be cleared and put into production...
...followed this statement with his own answer to "this strange conundrum. . . . It is because they fear the friendship of the West more than its hostility. They cannot allow free and friendly intercourse to grow up between the vast area they control and the civilization of the West. The Russian people must not see what goes on outside, and the world must not see what goes on inside the Soviet domain...
...proved possible to burn such vast amounts of coal without mining it, engineers foresaw these advantages...
...From the start, Trippe's was a seagoing airline. His "captains" and "first officers," dressed in blue serge, talked in knots instead of miles per hour. On long overwater flights they flew by celestial navigation. While they piled up experience on the short Caribbean hops, their boss, with vast energy, got ready to send them across the oceans. He worked with planemakers to turn out the flying boats he needed, sent Charles A. Lindbergh, a consultant to Pan Am, on Great Circle survey flights to the Orient. Trippe's agents roamed south, east and west lining...