Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Staten Island pier last week the American Graves Registration Service began loading 6,200 new, bronzed-steel coffins aboard a Liberty ship, bound for the battlegrounds of Europe. It was the small beginning of a vast and Stygian job: the return of an estimated 80% of the nation's 251,000 identified war dead, who now lie in cemeteries scattered across four continents, but whose next-of-kin have asked that they be disinterred and brought home for reburial. Estimated undertakers' fees...
...once they have passed through the vast and lonely country that is now Nebraska and the Dakotas, Teal Eye runs away. Three days later the Indians attack and kill all the party except Boone, Jim and sardonic Dick Summers, a man swift and animal-sensitive, who ranks as the most vivid scout in literature since Natty Bumppo, in James Fenimore Cooper's Leather-Stocking Tales...
...much-published Rogers models spiced up Saturday night festivities by donating dance to lucky toket-holders, while the vast majority of amateur couples trotted to the melodies of the Donohue band in the dining hall to the licks of the Harvard Squares in the more intimate and darkened surroundings of the Union Common Room...
...blazed, fitfully bright, as the half-classical, half-oriental capital of pagan and Christian art alike. Baltimore's entire exhibition would have been barely enough to ornament a single villa for a favorite courtesan of the 9th Century Emperor Theophilus. In a day when Rome was a vast ruin, and Paris and London mud-walled towns, Theophilus was tearing down palaces in Byzantium (which Constantine I had renamed Constantinople) simply for the fun of planning new and better ones'. Theophilus liked such playthings as a pair of life-size golden lions, which crouched before his throne and roared...
Sharp-tempered Jimmy Moffett filed suit for $6,000,000 against Arabian American Oil Co. (owned by Standard Oil Co. of California and the Texas Co., which also own Bahrein Petroleum), holder of the vast oil concessions in Saudi Arabia (TIME, March 24). This sum, said he, was due him for political chores done while he was with Bahrein Petroleum. When a Senate committee perked up its ears at this charge, Jimmy Moffett gladly told his story...