Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time he was knee-high to a fox pup, he knew nearly all there was to know about handling an ax and a rifle. He grew up long-legged and straight as a tulip tree, standing 6 feet 3 in his bare feet. He had a vast nose, a scraggly beard and a wild look in his eyes...
...much help in understanding Miro's pictures. Last week the bouncy little Spaniard opened a new show in Manhattan which was as bright and baffling-and as childlike-as ever. Miro's wildly swooping lines looked as if they had been cast like lassoes into vast space. Tangled up in them were stars, teeth, mustachios, moons, flying eyes, arrows and balloons. Sometimes the random objects coalesced into grinning heads and figures; sometimes...
...nerve center of U.S. agricultural economics is the vast, modern Chicago Board of Trade Building. Its massive 41 floors loom as large as agriculture does in the U.S. economy. Ceres, goddess of grain, stands pre-eminent at the very top of the building. In the grain pits below, more grain is bought & sold than anywhere else in the world, sometimes months before it is even grown. Last week a TIME correspondent paid a visit to Ceres' slightly mad court...
...takes office next month. One of the most pressing, and at the same time most difficult to solve, is that of maintaining the mature calibre of student that the veteran influx has brought to the Yard. Only 150 veterans are entering in the Summer and Fall terms and the vast flood of applicants that engulfed University Hall a year ago will soon dwindle to the lesser flow of former years in the absence of GI subsidies and with the pressure of a slumping national economy. Mr. Bender fears that this may thwart the aim of selecting students on the basis...
...British are nationalizing their electricity. We nationalized ours years & years ago, or a vast part of it. ... (Ramsay MacDonald, here in the 1920s, said we had more socialism than England.) . . . Mr. Attlee nationalized the Bank of England; it is no more nationalized than our Bank of Canada. Also, haven't we a nationalized radio . . . not to speak of complete control of our wheat marketing, nationalized steamships, plus all sorts of other controls...