Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years they increased from 20,000 to a million people. The million composes one of the most tightly organized and smoothly functioning organizations on earth. The church has no clergy in the usual sense, but a vast pyramid of lay orders to which every male is expected to belong and to which a full 250,000 do. Boys become deacons and begin taking part in religious services when they are twelve. As they grow older they may become, successively, teachers, priests, elders, members of a Council of Seventy, and high priests. Women only "share in their husbands' priesthood," although...
...early in Tanglewood's season, and the sounds that came out of the Berkshire woods were more cacophonous than symphonic. In the vast Music Shed, a student orchestra was rehearsing; in a nook of the carefully pruned gardens, a student agonized in solitude with his French horn. Strolling amid these sights & sounds was a short chunk of a man with a square face and a wild mane, who looked like a composer. He was-he was also guest of honor at Serge Koussevitzky's Berkshire Music Festival. His name: Arthur Honegger...
Something rushed up into the sky and out of the grayness, rushed slantingly upward and very swiftly into the luminous clearness above the clouds in the western sky; something flat and broad, and very large, that swept round in a vast curve, grew smaller, sank slowly and vanished again into the gray mystery of the night...
...will probably remain on that side of the border where it stands on independence day. (The Moslem League accused the Hindu-controlled Government of switching brand-new American locomotives from Pakistan areas to Delhi, substituting old, burnt-out engines.) The 40,000 staff members of New Delhi's vast imperial Secretariat were busy last week counting typewriters and almirahs (cabinets), carpets and inkpots. Typists worked four hours a day overtime copying files, so that each of the two new Governments would have a set. Moslems and Hindus accused each other of stealing files that both wanted...
...scholars, and the greatest center of Hebrew culture in the world (all its classes are conducted in Hebrew). Its professors have developed new processes for local industries, all but arrested many of the diseases that once ravaged Palestine, set up the first cancer foundation in the region, carried on vast irrigation projects to help Palestine's struggling agriculture...