Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until 1850, three centuries after the Amazon's discovery by a Spaniard, that white men sailed up it to exploit and trade in this jungle area that is twice as vast as the Mississippi basin. Few stayed. Twice the Amazon has been tapped-by the rubber boom at the turn of the century and the mad rubber hunt during World War II. The first left a high-domed opera house at Manáos and the 226-mile single-track Madeira-Mamoré Railway. The World War II boom established some of the beginnings of modern sanitation and medicine...
...more than 30,000 now. This year, Canadian firms are spending $443 million on plant expansion-nearly 50% more than they spent in 1946. Most important, Canada has a wealth of iron. While deposits in the famed U.S. Mesabi range run steadily lower, Canada has begun to exploit vast new iron ore deposits in northern Ontario and on the Quebec-Labrador border...
...past years, CRIMSON business representatives, (those glib fellows), have sold everything from the swivel-chair concession at University Hall to vast quantities of Brylereem, without batting an editorial eyelash. And now, a chance for Freshmen and Sophomores with latent extroversial qualities to develop them to the fullest, under the personal tutelage of the fastest talking pin-stripes in Cambridge. The CRIMSON comp opening tonight offers everyone a gift of the gab which can come in handy along other lines, 'He said, than journalistic ones...
...commissioned to decorate Stone Mountain with the heads of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis. When that job fell through, he turned to other heroes, spent 14 years hacking their heads out of Mount Rushmore. When he died in 1941, he left them looming, unfinished, over a vast dribble of scree...
...state, as in Great Britain; and, on the other hand, that the separation of church and state does not of itself ensure the full religious freedom of citizens or churches, as in Russia. . . . The problems of ... the enmeshing in human life of power, reason and conscience are too vast and intricate to be solved by the mere separation of church and state. We must go beyond this to a sound, positive statement of their respective functions and proper relations...