Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cartoon, roguishly asked a U.N. guard: "Is this the way to the Big Tent?" In one of the main conference chambers, a husky man with a mallet walked up to a side wall and started to hammer away. The four-inch cinder blocks crumbled under his blows. Soon a vast, vandalistic hole gaped in the wall...
...debits were both enormous. About as much land is irrigated in India today as in all the rest of the world. The Empire's biggest iron and steel plant is at Jamshedpur. The British had built up in India an incorruptible judicial system, a good police force, a vast (if substandard) network of roads, and the world's fourth largest railway system...
...regrettable that the Senators are expending so much effort in an investigation that so far has only confirmed the old suspicion that gentlemen prefer blondes. During the war the relations of government and business were so extensive, the number of contracts so vast, that there are bound to be numerous dark corners that need to be looked into, plenty of shady deals that could not bear the light of day. The committee could do the country a real service by uncovering them. But this particular investigation has its own merits from the point of view of the Republicans...
Every right-fingered, mechanical-minded American knows that ordinary Amplitude Modulation (AM) radio was a vast improvement over the early crystal and cat's whisker variety. Not so many know that Frequency Modulation (FM) radio is almost as big an improvement over AM. Comparatively few, in fact, have actually enjoyed FM's nearly staticless, high-fidelity charms. A new gadget, marketed last week, may change all that-even though the radio revolution which would make FM broadcasting commercially sound may still be a long...
Each year Library of Congress film reviewers wade through Hollywood's entire annual output, make some careful selections to add to the Library's vast (65 million feet) film collection. Now, after examining the 1,348 features, short subjects and newsreels copyrighted in 1946, the Library has taken its annual pick: 132 features, 176 shorts, all of the 531 newsreels...