Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only sucked thousands of American oil wells dry, stripped the rubber groves of Malaya, produced the world's most inhuman industry and its most recalcitrant labor union, but had filled U.S. streets with so many automobiles that it was almost impossible to drive one. In some big cities, vast traffic jams never really got untangled from dawn to midnight; the bray of horns, the stink of exhaust fumes, and the crunch of crumpling metal eddied up from them as insistently as the vaporous roar of Niagara...
...page, and a headline is craftily written less to tell the news than to lure the reader into the story. Having learned to condense, the press never intends to go back to "big" papers if it can help it. ("Big" was 24 pages; since British papers never depended on vast areas of display ads, they never had papers that Americans would call...
Towards the end of his Freshman year, each undergraduate arms himself with a copy of the course catalogue and, with aid of an adviser, plane the remainder of his college career. Before him lies a vast range of 400 courses and thirty-one distinct fields of concentration. Into one of these a student must channel a large part of his academic efforts. After four years of study he will emerge a product of Harvard education, a product that is intended to leave college with the basic tools for success in a specialist society and also to retain a broad base...
...come into a country of mirrors. Once Meriwether Lewis, exploring alone the Great Falls of the Missouri, found himself studying the water foaming over the high masses of rocks. Below him the Missouri stretched in one unruffled stream of water, flowing between smooth, grassy banks, "bearing on its bosom vast flocks of geese, while numerous herds of buffalo are feeding on the plains which surround it." His diary brimmed with these strange, lonely scenes...
They came to country so like what they had passed through that they felt they were journeying through echoes. Sometimes they saw herds of buffalo so vast that the prairie trembled with the incessant roaring of the bulls. The men made nets of brush and in a few minutes scooped over 500 fish from the river. High in the mountains, the Indian guides did not build campfires, but set fire to a huge tree that blazed up in the darkness, a mighty beacon glaring over the apparent top of the world, thousands of miles from civilization. The wilderness shook...