Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what about segregation, which was also a denial of rights? Segregation was not peculiar to the South-it was simply more universally enforced there. In the North, not only in the eyes of hotel owners and real estate dealers, but in the eyes of the vast majority of people, the Negro was still a second-class citizen. Those whites who considered the Negro their social equal were a minute exception to the general rule. As a Southern Regional Council report recently pointed out: "The South certainly has no monopoly on prejudice and discrimination." But, added the report, this...
...roughly equal to that of Cincinnati's (455,610). It now claims a population of 1,904,725. It had passed Detroit and is pressing close to Philadelphia. Every month about 10,000 more people move in, to stay. Now the city was in the midst of another vast and significant change. To its agricultural and mineral wealth it was adding a solid industrial base. It now ranks first in four industries: aircraft, motion pictures oil-well equipment, sportswear manufacture. It is second in two: automobile assembly and tire production...
Still munching and discarding wrappings and bread crusts, they joined a huge Communist parade to the vast, oval-shaped Foro Italico which was transformed into a vast picnic ground; thousands squatted on the pavement and feasted from cardboard box lunches. In the glow of the setting sun, Togliatti appeared on a platform. He did not rant or threaten; he simply said: "A great sadness fills our souls when we see the ever spreading discord in our country . . . We witness this offensive being launched against workers who fight for their daily bread...
Vigeland planned his park so that everything leads up to a monolith-a vast pillar with 121 entwined figures, carved out of a single 200-ton piece of granite. My four-year-old boy described it as "a pretend chimney with monkeys." Vigeland put it differently: "The monolith is my religion." Most observers think that he was trying to show humanity struggling upward, but since he never explained, it is also possible that he intended to show humanity losing its grip...
...They," in this case, referred to the vast labyrinth in the basement of Kirkland House, from whence come around 6300 meals each day, but where grinding up jockeys--or even horses for that matter--has certainly never been practiced. Today, the College Dining Halls Unit supplies bakery goods for the entire University, feeds Kirkland, Eliot, Winthrop, Lowell, and Leverett and operates the Eliot House Grill on the side. It employs 269 persons every day including Sundays and holidays. And on food alone, for its five Houses, the Unit spends each week approximately...