Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hanya Holm's dances are smart, brisk, Broadwayish-no Art whatever and a vast amount of skill; and Dancer Harold Lang and Singer Lisa Kirk take care of the subplot in style. In the leading roles, Hollywood's Patricia Morison proves to be right at home on Broadway, and Alfred Drake stands forth as the best all-round musicomedy hero in show business...
...some cases, says Stanley-Jones, the explosion is powerful enough to disrupt the star, blowing a vast halo of luminous material away from its surface. Such stars would be nonrepeating novae. A milder explosion would merely cause a slight expansion and more brightness. After it is over, perhaps the remaining fissionable material falls back toward the star's center and causes, in due course, another moderate explosion. Such stars, exploding gently at regular intervals, Stanley-Jones says, would behave like the "pulsating variables...
...Government will spend nearly $700 million on atomic energy this year, and this vast project will be largely supervised by a handful of U.S. corporations. Yet major corporations, which will spend hundreds of millions on research this year, will not put one red cent of it into atomic energy research (see SCIENCE). Many companies have even refused to take any part in the Government project...
...years as a weatherman-five of them as chief meteorologist for the city of New York-Benjamin Parry has seen vast improvements in weather predictions and weather service. The Weather Bureau (which once closed up shop every night at 10) now gives 24-hour service, predicts minimum & maximum temperatures, wind velocities, and types and volume of precipitation...
...thin chain of islands picketing the vast Red-dominated land mass of Asia, Douglas MacArthur stood overwhelmingly outgunned, outmanned, and out-planed by actual and potential Soviet power. In every category of military strength (except the atomic bomb), the Soviet Union, stretching from the Bering Strait to Vladivostok and deep inland, held at least a ten-to-one superiority. Reported Douglas MacArthur: the time to prepare is now. He asked immediately for six divisions, hundreds of aircraft and increased naval forces...