Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broke in a vast, excited, ugly roar. Temporary Chairman Alben Barkley pounded his gavel. He ordered a voice vote on Vaughn's report. Although it had been agreed in committee not to have a roll call, Northern delegates shouted into their floor microphones, demanding one. But they could not be heard. The floor mikes were dead. Chairman Barkley asked for ayes and nays. Deadpan, he listened to the response and ruled that the majority report had carried. The Mississippi delegation was accredited...
...members of the State Legislature a pat on the back. Both the House and the Senate had all but walked on their hands to do his will, had raised taxes by $80 million dollars, upped old-age pensions, wreaked revenge on his enemies in New Orleans, and given him vast political power. Earl made his thanks as handsome as possible. Said he: "I don't think I've ever seen a legislature with less drunkenness and less rowdyism...
...releasing enormous energy. The reaction may spread in a short time through most of the mass of the star. The energy released is enough to blow off the star's outer layer. All that remains, according to this theory, is a small, dense core of neutrons and a vast shell of flaming gas that burns itself out in a few months of splendor...
...painstakingly, he built up his savings. Then he bought a cattle ranch and moved to Denver. He got to thinking it was foolish to send his cattle to Chicago to be butchered, established Denver's first packing plant (the Western Packing Co.). He got to looking at the vast, empty Colorado prairies. After a visit to Germany, he came back with a sack of beet-sugar seed. The beets flourished on the prairies, and he founded the Great Western Sugar Co. He started building beet-processing plants, got to wondering about the German-made cement. He found that Colorado...
...shadow grew across the West, Amadeo Peter Giannini's vast (516 branches) Bank of America has been the target for assorted stones from many a sling. For two years the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division investigated; off & on for eight years the Securities & Exchange Commission let fly, with everything from pebbles to paving blocks. Every shot bounced off the tough hide of old (78), imperious "A.P." Last week Bank of America reported record resources of $5,859,234,000, putting it farther out in front than ever as the biggest U.S. bank...