Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marching. "This is the new Boy Scout movement-80,000 members already," explained Dr. Sze Hyong Kang, the school director, as we drove into the vast compound. He sat us down in a little room before a table set with sweet, black coffee...
...head prelate, a religious hierarchy or even an ordained priesthood, it has its center of activity at El Azhar University in Cairo (enrollment: 15,000). El Azhar, the largest Moslem university in the world, .draws students who walk there from as far as Addis Ababa; its graduates have vast prestige among Moslems in their own countries...
...Kitchell: There is one great nation about which we know all too little . . . the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics-commonly written U.S.S.R., or just called the Soviet Union. We all want to know how a republic so vast, so mixed . . . so battered . . . is developing in every direction...
...This war of religions is now seriously on. . . . The practical facts are that Communism offers a recipe for a good life in this world, and it is firing men's minds; that vast numbers of the workers believe the Church to be a reactionary protector of wealth and privilege. . . . There are some bold spirits who talk of a new positive crusade...
...Congress has shown no great enthusiasm for the vast loans or grants with which the Administration wants to do the job. But a drop in exports may cause it to change its mind. The drop is not far off. Last week, Brazil and Argentina got ready to cut their U.S. imports. Canada is seeking means to do the same. Britain is surveying all its imports with an eye to slashing them about $800 million a year; any cuts it makes will be deepest on imports from...