Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bivetching from the Alleghenies almost, to the Rookies, the vast Middle West sent forth 158 of her sons. From the South extending from Florida to Texas, 48 Yardlings crossed the Masen-Dixon Line to join the Class...
...Commission's report brings into full view the vast educational needs of the country; it serves as an honest beginning for a job of constructive effort that must strengthen and expand colleges before a half-hearted retreat into days of academic scarcity begins. Yet neither the problems the Commission attacks nor the proposals it offers are now. The past few years have only made the situation more precarious. The importance of the report lies in whether it will spur state and federal governments to use it as a guide for building up higher education to a point at least adequate...
Fireworks in Heaven. Such pageants usually began with street processions leading to the churches and cathedrals where the plays were performed. When all were inside, and waiting in one vast hush for the wonders to begin, God the Father would suddenly appear above them, on an airy platform surrounded by choirs of angels, flowers and revolving wheels of fireworks whose sparks, floating upwards like distant suns among the vaulted shadows, more than once ignited, the roof...
...screws with both hands and tightened bolts until he could hardly tell himself from a machine. In General Motors Corp.'s huge, sprawling plants, nobody works that hard. But many a G.M. employee, like mass-production workers everywhere, has long felt that his identity is lost in the vast impersonality of the machines...
Died. Mrs. Harriet Gardiner Lynch Coogan, 86, wealthy recluse with a monumental grudge against High Society, longtime owner of "Whitehall," aristocratic Newport's most tumbledown eyesore: in Manhattan. Owner of a vast real-estate fortune, which she managed in a cubbyhole office from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., Mrs. Coogan had sulked in seclusion in a hotel suite for 32 years. She walked out of Whitehall in 1910 (in a huff, according to Society legend, after giving a big party which Society boycotted), never returned, refused to sell the place, just let it stand there rotting...