Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hallowed preserve of Dutch and British traders and cartels (notably tin and rubber), which all but shut out U.S. business" grievously slanders the Dutch. Before the war an unlimited number of U.S. firms could have had, and very many did have (amongst others, Goodyear and Standard Oil), vast and growing enterprises in Indonesia . . . thanks to the model open door policy of the Dutch government which welcomed all enterprises, including Japanese...
...trip to Madras province which typified the work of a unique statesman in shaping a new nation. He traveled 3,500 miles by plane, made twelve ex tempore speeches and 18 public appearances, showed himself to 1,000,000 people. He displayed wild impatience, touching humility, arrogance, humor, vast learning and vast interests. His remarks touched on public morals, and public manners, stone masonry, weaving, women, Communism and military history. At one point he said: "I am sorry to admit I have never been a Boy Scout." He makes up for that lack by trying to do a good deed...
...made no criticism of the efficiently planned interior (which provides 60 miles of shelves, air conditioning, 665 soundproofed cubicles for individual study). Lescaze's point was simply that from the outside the new library looked like a vast stone what-is-it-a sentimental...
...dean of Columbia University's School of Dental and Oral Surgery since 1945, was appointed last week to a job vacant since the death last October of Dr. M. M. Fowler. Next month he will take over one of the least publicized and most expensive operations in the vast ($7,001,514,365-a-year) Veterans Administration programs...
...Rogers was a World War I doughboy on furlough when he bumped into Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in a French provincial hotel. Miss Toklas ("Pussy," Miss Stein called her) was wearing "a sort of uniform," consisting of a cloak and a skirt with vast baggy pockets; she moved at a springy canter. Miss Stein ("Lovey," Miss Toklas called her) also wore a sort of uniform, modeled apparently on the Greek Evzones but including sandals; she walked like a determined elephant. Both ladies wore hats like helmets. They named young Rogers "Kiddy...