Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...change, said new President Wilson, took him "completely by surprise." Just as surprised was the business world outside A.T. &T. Beyond his own vast company, lean, friendly Leroy August Wilson was not well known. Manhattan's financial writers, scrabbling through their files, found no mention of him. But they found ample evidence in A.T. & T. annals of what Leroy Wilson had done...
Scientists also soon learn "how vast is the novelty of the world, and how much even the physical world transcends in delicacy and in balance the limits of man's prior imaginings. . . . We come to have a great caution on all assertions of totality, of finality or absoluteness...
...light scattered among the stars. Some had been proved mere wraiths, irregular clouds of dust shining by reflected starlight. Others, more interesting, were globes, ellipses, open spirals like patterns of fire from great spinning pin wheels. When the brightest of these were photographed with powerful telescopes, they dissolved into vast congregations of faint stars, whose dimness suggested that they might be very far away. But astronomers, lacking a proper measuring stick, were not agreed. Some thought that the nebulae were comparatively near and small. Hubble's first step when he started work at Mount Wilson Observatory...
...Shake. Other recent Wright projects: a Dallas hotel which, "unlike most commercial hotels . . .is planned chiefly for comfort and entertainment of guests," and a sports club for the Hollywood hills, featuring vast saucers of concrete, cantilevered out from a central shaft. The lowest saucers would hold a tennis court and a swimming pool. Those who dared to go higher could get a cocktail, or, at the very top, a sun bath. "The construction," said Wright blandly, "would have the same chance in a temblor as a tree with a taproot. The dramatic character. . . is achieved at no sacrifice of either...
...biggest props under the boom is another kind of boom: the vast increase in the U.S. population. Last week, the National Industrial Conference Board warned businessmen that it was time they began taking the population boom into account. Said N.I.C.B.'s Business Record: "The significance. . . to businessmen can hardly be overestimated...