Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After twelve days in the vast loneliness of the world's last no man's land, six survivors of a crashed Navy flying boat, all members of the Byrd Expedition, were rescued on the edge of ice-clad Antarctica. Three of the crew had died...
...Manhattan's vast, grey Bellevue Hospital, doctors last week demonstrated the work of a new model institute, the first of its kind, for rehabilitation of the civilian disabled. A joint venture of the hospital and New York University's College of Medicine (which are raising $2,500,000 to give the institute a building of its own), it is directed by Dr. Howard A. Rusk, who ran the A.A.F.'s wartime convalescence program. The institute, Rusk explained, hopes to spur a nation-wide attack on a problem greater than that of disabled veterans: disabled civilians. During World...
...dozen-odd principal characters used by Author Collins as a means of mapping London-south from Camden Town, north from Wapping. Absent from his map is the London that is most familiar to most tourists-the picture-postcard world in the shadow of Big Ben. Omnipresent are the vast areas few tourists ever see, and ways of life that few would associate with England...
Stealing cars, in the hope of making big money fast, leads Percy to manslaughter and the Old Bailey. All of Author Collins' characters have enough vitality to create interest and amuse, but it is the vast, murmuring world in which they live that gives Dulcimer Street its strength and character...
...have looked about to find what could be salvaged from the wreckage. With the southern wing standing just as pat as it has for 70 years, the job of reclamation has been left to that movement of many colors--the Democrat left. Within this heterogeneous mass has risen a vast confusion over aims and a debilitating internecine strife over fundamentals, with treatment of the Communists lying at the heart of the difficulty. Strained Russian-American relations have transformed Communism from a wartime ally into the greatest red herring in the American press. This swift change of opinion, coupled with Truman...