Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When perspiring undergraduates submitted their blue blooks during the examination period, they were merely feeding raw material into the College's vast checking, transcribing, and double checking machinery, which will turn out on Monday, February 17, and end product of thousands of 8 by 5 inch white grade reports...
...abandoned its 35,000 citizens in August 1945 to a ragtag puppet garrison, which was quickly adopted-but not reinforced -by the Nationalist Government. When Chinese Communist forces neared, the garrison breached the banks of the nearby Fu Yang River and turned Yungnien into a Nationalist fortress in a vast, Red-bordered lake...
...street had the last word. Unasked, one N. H. Partridge of Thornton Heath, Surrey, put three names in nomination: Henry Wallace, "the man who faced America"; Albert Einstein, "for trying"; and Anon., "a child born recently who will be the last survivor of Europe, which . . . will have become a vast, slightly radioactive wilderness, entirely devoid of human life...
...every parish and diocese it is largely the few who bear the burden and heat of the day. . . . The churches are at a tremendous disadvantage, for we are in essence waging a desperate spiritual warfare in a most critical period of history, at the same time carrying a vast weight of nominal Christians who, as someone has remarked, having been once inoculated by weak religion, seem to be impervious to the real thing...
...Data from hospitals throughout the Boston area testify that the notable absence of colds, pneumonia, and other respiratory ailments is not something peculiar to Harvard. While such a situation is indeed heartening, in another sense it is almost ominous, as if the world were temporarily becalmed, waiting for a vast storm of disease to strike...