Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With a vast background in helping students plan job campaigns, the Placement Office claims, "The one positive way to find a job is by writing letters and getting interviews through them...
...Delhi and throughout the magnificent plain of the dismembered Punjab, in homes and shops and factories and farms and villages and in the religious sanctuaries of all faiths, amid the clotting of the terrified in depots and on guarded trains and on lonely station platforms and in the vast shelterless encampments of refugees and their hypnotized columns across the land, the devastation raged alike among Hindus and Moslems and Sikhs...
...Some vast new provinces may soon be added to the occupied territories of science. Last week, at the centennial celebration of Yale's Sheffield Scientific School (see EDUCATION), two Nobel Prizewinners described exciting discoveries...
Kiths & Climate. Out of the vast, miscellaneous welter of Huntington's ideas, a few will certainly live. One is the concept of "kiths," a main feature of his book. Huntington defined a kith as "a group of people relatively homogeneous in language and culture, and freely intermarrying with one another." He traced the careers of many influential kiths, including the Jews, the Puritan New Englanders, the Mongols, the Hakkas of South China...
...last week the Government had bought about 270 million bushels of wheat, and that was slightly more than half of what it intends to ship during this crop year. Thus, in effect, as a prospective purchaser of further vast amounts, it was underwriting the speculation in the pit. It was also underwriting speculation by farmers. Convinced that Government purchases will drive prices still higher, the farmers are still holding back about half the current wheat crop. They can well afford to take the chance...