Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Wallace, a high-tempered farmer who emigrated from Ireland to Pennsylvania. Eight of the nine children died of consumptive diseases. But grandfather Henry lived to be almost 80-an ordained minister in the United Presbyterian Church, a doer and dreamer, a smoker of Pittsburgh stogies, a man of vast physical bulk, who quit the regular ministry to homestead, later to edit and write for the family's Wallaces' Farmer. He wrote a three-volume story of his life and a robust column, "Uncle Henry's Sabbath School Lesson," which was one of the biggest circulation builders...
...years before World War I, fierce-eyed, mustachioed "Professor" Ivy Baldwin was as famous as many a king. He was a tiny man (5 ft. 3 in., 112 Ibs.), but he had a fine sense of balance and a vast contempt for death. He toured the world making balloon ascensions and parachute jumps. He dived into nets from incredible heights. He walked high wires with the ease and insouciance...
...highly volatile chemicals. Survivors staggered out of buildings from which black smoke billowed. They could hear the moans of those trapped inside. But there was no panic, no screaming. To the workers this was an old, familiar story. In 1921, more than 80% of the northern third of the vast plant at Oppau, three miles northwest of Ludwigshafen, had gone up in one terrible roar that took 565 lives. Just five years-minus one day-before this week's explosion, a similar blast had taken 73 lives. During the war 120 Allied bombing raids had smashed more than half...
Construction. The AEC tells little about its vast building program, expected to cost $1,250,000,000. The Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, with its nuclear reactor, is "well under way." Fifteen thousand workers are busy at Hanford, Wash., presumably expanding the vast plutonium works. The super-secret weapons plant and laboratory at Los Alamos, N. Mex. are being renovated and extended...
Mansions & Masses. From his merchant uncle, John Hancock inherited a fortune, an interest in 20 ships, a vast mansion on Beacon Hill, with one of the loveliest gardens in Boston. He graduated from Harvard, worked in his uncle's countinghouse, visited England, returned to Boston two years before his uncle's death, and took over the business in a year when trade declined...