Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indians murmur of these things. On one hand, says Juan, the Government argues that the spreading epidemic is a great national evil; everyone should contribute to stamping out the disease. On the other hand, local Sinarchist leaders (clerical fascists) shout that the campaign is turning the country into a vast slaughterhouse, that it will take more than a million cattle deaths to stamp out the disease. They argue until a man's head aches that campesinos are not being paid enough for their losses, that most of the sick cattle get well by themselves, that the 'European...
Said concurring Justice Stanley H. Fuld: "When account is taken of the vast and far-flung audience reached by radio today-often far greater in number than the readers of the largest metropolitan newspaper-it is evident that the broadcast of scandalous utterances is ... [as] harmful to the defamed person's reputation as a publication by writing...
Most people think of college when they think of the G.I. Bill, but thousands of the veterans were doing their "studying" on the job in factories, and thousands more had gone back to high school. There was still another vast group of G.I.s who had found themselves adrift in the deep-too old to go back to high school, anxious for college training but not sufficiently schooled...
...market, the support program will, in fact, be doing just what its critics now say it does, keeping prices up. At worst, unless the prices of manufactured goods drop, in line with food, the Government might find itself pouring out millions to support farm prices on a scale so vast as to be unworkable...
...village at the foot of the Castle)-who do not want him. K., a land surveyor, believes that he has been ordered to take a job at the Castle. But when he arrives, at night, in winter, he is rudely ordered off the premises. The Castle authorities (a vast, apparently shiftless bureaucracy) first deny that K. has a job there at all, then grudgingly concede that he may have one. K. tries desperately to reach the Castle by telephone. "The receiver gave out a buzz of a kind that K. had never heard on a telephone. It was like...