Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...power--of exerting pressure behind the scenes to kill the program each time it came up. After the 1934 battle had been lost, Senator La Follette declared that the opposition was in the hands of J.P. Morgan. On continual guard against governmental power projects, private power companies realize the vast potentialities of the St. Lawrence. In 1921, Alcoa, General Electric, and Du Pont wanted to buy the rights for power development on the river from Ogdensburg, New York, to Montreal. They were willing to throw the navigation in for free, but were turned down. Although spokesmen for private power claim...
...taking infinite pains with details. He spent 14 years on the Shaw Memorial (see cut) and he modeled 40 Negro heads for it before deciding on the 16 he finally used. Such painstaking appealed to Henry Adams' New England genius, and Saint-Gaudens' talent for mirroring vast ideas in bronze made him just the man, Adams thought, to create a memorial for Mrs. Adams' tomb...
...scientists are about to tell all that can safely be told about the vast wartime researches that led to the atom bomb. The Atomic Energy Commission announced last week that it intends to issue, within the next two years, more than 100 volumes, averaging 500 pages each...
Engene Holman was frank enough to admit last year that the United States had no cause to fear an oil shortage for quite a while. Vast new fields are now being opened up in Florida, the Carolinas, Georgia, etc, which make the East Texas fields look like kiddy-stuff. We are also finding better ways of getting oil out of sand and other untapped sources...
...Robinson's father permitted him to attend Harvard as a "special student." During his two years in Cambridge his letters bubble with reports of avid study, vast reading and literary enthusiasm. Yet he continued to suffer from the curse of his shyness; he self-consciously reports a search for "someone . . . with whom I can smoke a pipe and talk of Matthew Arnold." Robinson was aware of his social limitations; while visiting a professor's house, a girl took him under her wing, but "I do not think she was trying to seduce me . . . her eyes were too large...