Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Power Is the Spur. To bring under control this vast interplay of seemingly irresistible forces and immovable bodies would take more than the fanaticism of Moslem Leaguer Mohamed AH Jinnah, more than Jawaharlal Nehru's eloquent idealism, more, perhaps, than Gandhi's combination of mysticism and manipulation. India needed an organizer. It had one. Gandhi listened to God and passed on his political ideas to Vallabhbhai (rhymes with "I'll have pie") Patel; Patel, after listening to Gandhi, translated those ideas into intensely practical politics...
...project of a vast emigration must save from spiritual and material misery many unfortunates to whom an impoverished Europe no longer offers the elementary possibilities of life and work. The realization of such a project will not only serve to enrich Argentina . . . but also will write in the annals of this clouded and unhappy postwar period a beautiful page of spiritual and corporal mercy...
Within the vast, still uncompleted Washington Cathedral, the Protestant Episcopal Church installed last week its 20th Presiding Bishop. None of the Most Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill's predecessors had been installed with such pomp & circumstance. Five processions of purple-robed choirboys, candle-bearers, crucifers, bishops and distinguished laymen escorted him toward the high altar. A congregation of 2,500 crowded the unfinished nave to witness the ceremonies of installation...
Then, with Democrats and Republicans applanding the seldom-equalled forth-rightness of his statement, he took the oath as Secretary of State and promised to "do my best" with the vast problems crowding in upon...
...vast void in the serious magazine field at Harvard narrowed two days ago with the publication of the new "Progressive." An outgrowth of the old four-page "Student Progressive," the new magazine is five times as thick and proportionately broader in scope. It boldly intends to "start with the student's daily problems of eating, living and learning, and range through polities, the social sciences and philosophy, not neglecting literature and the arts, both classical and popular." Such a catholicity of interest, while probably not realizable within the confines of a monthly twenty-page publication, at least demonstrates that...