Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heritage. What is this Europe that once more-this time with U.S. help and encouragement-gropes for unification? It is not actually a continent; it is a relatively small peninsula of vast Eurasia. It is marked off from Asia not by geography but by its heritage: Greek art and intellect, Roman law and government, the Christian religion. It is the heir to England's Magna Charta, to France's cathedrals (and France's revolution), Italy's Renaissance and Germany's Reformation, to Don Quixote, the Divina Commedia, the Nordic sagas. Lacking a fixed geographical border...
...world's biggest cyclotron will be built on the Berkeley campus of the University of California. Last week the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's Chairman David E. Lilienthal, seconded happily by U. of C.'s Ernest O. Lawrence, announced that the Government will finance a vast machine (no feet in diameter) to dwarf all present atom-smashers. It will weigh more than 10,000 tons, cost $9 million...
...That great historic trio . . . Martin, Barton and Fish." Joe Martin summed up his own political philosophy four years later. There is a war in the U.S., he said, between the idea of a free society and the idea of a regimented and planned society; the second conception lives upon "vast streams of Government debt," takes its shape from "a bureaucratic elite under the command of a self-inspired leader. In Europe they call it Fascism. Here we call it the New Deal...
That realism just suited the Wild West he wanted to paint: the lurid desert sunsets, the cowboys and Indians, bucking broncs and buffaloes. Leigh roamed the vast raw country on horseback, turned east with a firsthand knowledge second only to Frederic Remington's. "Those tired old nags at the rodeo," he says chuckling into his snowy cavalry mustache, "don't know the first thing about bucking." Invited on two scientific expeditions to Africa, Leigh sketched constantly and confidently, came back to paint a series of vivid panoramas for the New York Museum of Natural History's African...
...solar system, says ter Haar, must once have consisted of the sun, surrounded by a vast atmosphere of gas. The system's revolution shaped this atmosphere into a flattish disc. Near the center the gas was dense enough to be somewhat viscous. Its drag gradually slowed the rotation of the sun while the outer parts of the disc revolved faster. This slowing effect, thinks ter Haar, points toward an explanation of the uneven distribution of the solar system's angular momentum...