Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vast wastes above the Arctic Circle, where much of the world's weather is generated, Canada has only two weather stations equipped for long-range forecasting and the U.S. has only three (at Thule in Greenland, at Barrow and Kotzebue, in Alaska). To achieve a closer study and better forecasting, Canada and the U.S. joined last week in a plan for more observation posts...
Doctors estimate that one U.S. pregnancy out of every three ends in abortion. Some abortions are spontaneous (miscarriages). Some are "therapeutic" (performed to save life). But the vast majority (about 750,000 every year) are illegal. Least likely to succeed are abortions attempted by means of drugs...
...time of troubles (he dates them from the wars of the Reformation), perhaps toward the end of them. He finds bleak comfort in the thought that as yet no universal state has been imposed despite Napoleon's attempt, and two attempts by the Germans. But from the vast design and complex achievement of A Study of History one hopeful meaning stands out: not materialist but psychic factors are the decisive forces of history. The action takes place within the amphitheater of the world and the flux of time; the real drama unfolds within the mind...
...vast majority of India's swamis spend their lives in retirement from the world, eating only enough to keep body & soul together, passing their time in exemplary meditation. Swami Yogananda was inspired by more practical aims. The "Cosmic Director" ("who writes His own plays") ordered him to move on to the U.S. Soon he became a popular lecturer, initiated "tens of thousands of Americans" -to whom he dedicated his first volume of poems, Whispers from Eternity, which appeared in 1929 with an introduction by Opera Singer Amelita Galli-Curci...
Stockpiles of materials (such as super-pure graphite bricks for uranium piles) have been assembled. Plans for the great machines are already far advanced. There will be assorted cyclotrons, a synchrocyclotron, and other vast "accelerators" which are too newly designed to have names. Their powers will range to one billion volts...