Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those teenagers, I resent this attitude. TIME'S article described only a small portion of the high-school students, and left out the vast majority who are sane, earnest, and hardworking. . . . More than ever before, today's students are aware of world problems...
From his new, vast Willow Run plant, after several false starts, the bombers rolled out. Thousands of other U.S. plants poured out the tools of war, mass-produced by the techniques of the old pacifist, Ford...
Although concentration in bio-chem calls for courses in chemistry, biology, and physics, with some mathematics a very handy adjunct, the field is not just a pleasant four-year exposure to a liberal education in the sciences. The vast majority of men in the department, most of them pre-medical students, are playing for keeps, since medical schools are notoriously grade-conscious...
Build a Monopoly. Some 18 million dial phones still worked, but that service would last only until there were mechanical breakdowns. Maintenance workers were among the strikers; so were clerical, accounting and plant workers of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s vast Bell Systems. Workers at the subsidiary Western Electric joined the walkout...
...studded beaches of the Gulf of Riga, often in the nude (the early part of the morning was reserved for men, the latter part for women, and police saw to it that none of the early bathers overstayed their allotted time). During Midsummer Night, they would swarm through their vast woods by the thousands, singing wild songs that echoed over the countryside's countless lakes. Now the silent Lithuanian woods harbor the bitter "brethren of the forest," i.e., anti-Russian guerrillas...