Word: vastness
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From 40 Filing Cases. In Roosevelt and Hopkins, Playwright Robert Sherwood (Idiot's Delight, Abe Lincoln in Illinois) has written the best book on World War II by an American. The title belies the vast scope of Sherwood's effort. This is not only the story of Hopkins in the role of personal chief of staff and messenger of F.D.R. It is the one book so far which adequately provides 1) a sympathetic but candid exposition of Roosevelt's domestic, foreign and military dilemmas throughout the war, and how he met them; 2) an informed, balanced...
...also pointed to "the vast amount of experimentation in advising which had been carried on in the College in the last 25 years--experimentation which has never been made public or devised into a concrete plan of action...
...almost eerie calm of the campaign continued through election night. The vast throng which traditionally invades Manhattan's Times Square with horns, bells, whistles and placards simply did not materialize. Broadway crowds were small er than on any normal Saturday night...
...There is, happily, a vast difference between the possibility and the probability of war. Between the two lies a twilight of tension . . . that might last a generation and in the end mean peace or war . . . However, if this Army is to prevent war, it must be made part of a stable long-range military policy-a policy as prolonged as the period of tension ... If we are to hop, skip and jump every time a paper is rustled east of the Elbe, we shall place ourselves supinely and helplessly at [the Russians'] feet while they call the tune...
Such an expansion would require new railroads, factories, cities, and vast amounts of capital. Hundreds of millions of people, would have to move to new areas. But if the world wants to make the great effort, it can, by applying present-day techniques, provide food for more than twice its present population...