Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acre site on Long Island which used to be Camp Upton, a vast World War II reception center, is now mostly a collection of slatternly abandoned barracks. But its flatlands have a new destiny: on them will grow a monster of the atomic age-a workshop for the strange, powerful, ominous machines of modern nuclear physics...
Called "Quineboquin" or "circular" by the Algonquin Indians, the river first deceived explorers by its broad mouth and led them to believe that it was the gateway to the vast expanses of the interior. Even Virginia's famous Captain John Smith, was fascinated by the Charles and he went to New England to seek gold, and if not gold perhaps fish, at the source of the river. He gave a map of the Boston area to England's Prince Charles, who took great delight in naming the various landmarks of the area and who finally gave his own name...
Dissatisfaction results from the vast difference in scholastic work required to achieve the same grade even in courses within the same department, and the interminable difficulties involved in having a grade changed even when the instructor admits the possibility of an error in judgment. There are no standards for grading. Each instructor is left to conduct this course as he sees fit and the department does not intervene unless the grades he awards are completely out of proportion with the distribution that would normally be expected...
...development rights to the world's greatest unexploited oil pool, under the sands of Saudi Arabia, belong to Arabian-American Oil Co. In the first major step towards marketing these vast resources (estimated potential: up to 26 billion bbls.), Aramco last week awarded contracts for the biggest and costliest pipeline in oil history. Straddling the Middle East for a distance of some 1,000 miles, the 30-inch pipe will shortcut the long haul by tanker from fields on the Persian Gulf to ports in the Mediterranean. It will cost some $100,000,000, will deliver...
Little for Service. Buying & selling on a vast quantity basis, as the basement does, keeps the overhead down to a minimum. Filene customers serve themselves, pay cash, carry their own packages (or pay a delivery charge). Frequently, the basement sells the same item as its upstairs store-but at half the price...