Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vast patio of Buenos Aires' Institute Bernasconi, white-smocked high-school kids lined up in ranks. In 14,300 other public schools across the country, students and teachers snapped to attention before their radios. It was the opening of the school year. In the presence of President Peron and la Señora, the new Secretary of Education, strapping ex-Ambassador to Washington Oscar Ivanissevich, explained the educational philosophy of the new Argentina...
With this fourth & final volume, H. L. Mencken has had his say on the peculiarities of U.S. speech. The final volume, like its predecessors, is a vast miscellany, ill-arranged, bulging at the seams with inconsequential information, festooned with footnotes in such profusion as to give it the appearance of a gigantic hoax. Its elaborate cross references sometimes seem soberly professorial, sometimes like parodies on scholarship. The whole work now runs to 2,880 pages. It is surely one of the great curiosities of literature...
Fire regulations peculiar to pre-historic Sanders have forced the BTW back into the sixteenth century, when scenery was unheard of. Smartly attired pages will tote vast brightly colored banners onto the stage to suggest the tone and location of each scene...
...member should take the fullest possible advantage of this opportunity to contribute to a major humanitarian cause. At the same time no one should forget that his gift inherently contains potential political force. "The choice," writes an American from Athens, "is between feeding a few communists along with a vast majority of non-communists or not feeding any and taking the chance that many of the non-communists will be driven by hunger over to the side which promised them freedom from physical suffering...
Mechanical miners that do all the work from coal seam to mine car are nothing new. Mining engineers have been trying them with limited success for years. But coal men cheered the vast improvements in this one as the "most serious start" ever made towards simplifying their complex operations...