Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...draped in dark green and salmon pink. Brazilian bigwigs and tourists up from Rio crowded against the walls. Around the grey-covered horseshoe table in front of the speaker's platform, delegates to the Rio Conference fidgeted restlessly in yellow leather chairs. It was cold in the vast hotel on the mountains at Petropolis, 40-odd miles north of Rio. Furthermore, the President of Brazil was late...
What was iron doing in cold space many million miles away from the nearest star? Struve concluded that both stars, Antares and Companion, must be surrounded by a vast swarm, of meteors, like the iron-nickel meteors which bombard the earth. Apparently they shoot through an enormous region 50,000 times as wide as the diameter of the sun (865,000 miles). They may be attracted mainly by the powerful gravitation of massive Antares. But they show up on Astronomer Struve's spectroscope because intense ultraviolet rays from the hot, blue Companion make them glow with telltale light...
...them would sell their own grandmother if it would do any good-the people are the soundest, sanest and most generous people in the world." For Russia, she expressed what almost sounded like sympathy: "Look at Russia's internal problems. Look what she has to do with that vast country of hers-feeding all those people, and cleaning them...
Only two or three of the Padre's boys have ever failed him. And the fame of the Gremlin Club has spread throughout Dallas. Last week, the citizens of Dallas launched a campaign to build the Padre a vast "Kid's World Community Center" for industrial education, vocational education, recreation and study. Sheriff Guthrie raided the Dallas slot machines and turned over the money to the Padre. The Center would cost about a million dollars. To Dallas, the Padre and his work were worth every cent...
...Berkshire Music Center's energetic Opera Director Boris Goldovsky, Mozart's neglected opera had a modern message: man's struggle with vast natural forces. He also felt that "it is the responsibility of contemporary musicians, ' who are the trustees of the great composers, to resurrect [their works] to the best of their ability." Goldovsky streamlined the opera down to bearable length (2½ hours), straightened out some of the curves in its tortuous plot. Then he put a student cast and chamber orchestra to work...