Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan to "improve" the Metropolitan Opera [TIME, Sept. 6] is commendable, but he mustn't let his long affiliation with thousands of thin-thighed showgirls go to his vocabulary when he calls opera singers "hamfats." Does he know that it takes all that "heft" to sing above a vast orchestra? . . . Opera is not supposed to be a flashy, visual affair of housebroken horses and incredible bosoms ... We don't go to look; we go to listen...
...solution did not lie in the partisans' theory that "all good flows from their own party and all political evil from the other." Said Earl Warren: "The vast majority of Americans know . . . that good Americans are to be found in both parties. They realize that there are progressives and conservatives in the ranks of both. They know that party affiliation does not change human instincts or affect loyalty to country ... No party has a patent on progress, a copyright on governmental principles or a proprietary interest in the advances made in former days...
Administrator Hoffman was reasonably well pleased with the results. Despite mistakes and the awkwardness to be expected in getting any such vast plan started, ECA was generally doing what it was supposed to do. Without ECA, Hoffman declared, France and Italy "would have been in the hands of the Communists six months...
Earl has absolute control over more than 40 state boards, departments and commissions. He holds the liquor industry under his thumb by means of a board with vast regulatory powers. He can influence Louisiana's $204 million oil industry, its $14 million sulphur industry, its $112 million lumber industry through his Conservation Commission...
Died. Clarence Edward Groesbeck, 72, longtime chairman of the board of the vast Electric Bond & Share Co. public-utilities empire; in La Jolla, Calif. In the '305, with Commonwealth & Southern's Wendell L. Willkie, he led the fight against TVA and the New Deal's program of Government regulation of utilities...