Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wald likened science to a vast patchwork quilt full of holes which scientists are trying to mend. He emphasized the importance of free exchange of ideas in the scientific world...
...despite his soothing tone, he too seemed to be listening warily to the vast and delicately balanced machine. He announced that the winter months "are very decisive" and that officials of the Government, including the President, "were watching things closely...
...Church." In many ways, the Prince-Primate lived like the parish priest. In his vast, gloomy Esztergom palace, he used only a dining room and a bedsitting room (never heated) where he received visitors. On the table which under Mindszenty's predecessors bore the exquisite weight of geese and pheasant and rich Hungarian wine, only one hot meal a day was set before the Primate. On Fridays, he ate only bread & water as a sacrifice for Hungary's liberation from Communism...
With everything else to see in Washington's vast National Gallery, it was easy to miss the 28 small pieces of Egyptian sculpture set up last week in one of the first-floor galleries. None of the well-preserved little Nile maidens with their high busts and long bobs stands more than 30 inches in bare feet. The handsome obsidian head of Pharaoh Amenemhat III (1800 B.C.), ranked by Egyptologists as one of the great masterpieces of Egyptian art, measures less than 5 inches from chin to crown. Other pieces-the intricately carved make-up spoon used by Egyptian...
Plumbing & Clams. But the time is coming, the AEC warned, when radioactive substances will be common outside such guarded centers. More & more laboratories are using radioisotopes (see above), and the atomic power plants of the future will necessarily contain vast quantities of radioactive material. It will be the duty of health authorities to see that none of the stuff damages the public...