Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Medical School provides the longest haul for the post-graduate. Yet, as new discoveries occur in biology, physiology, and the related sciences, the vast subject matter increases, rather than affording opportunity for cutting...
Today the situation has undergone vast changes and raised pressing problems. More than one-third of the graduate students on this side of the Charles are married, and of that proportion, no fewer than 60 per cent have one child or more...
...fateful meeting was the Battle of Midway, fought 15 years ago this week. It was one of the decisive battles of history, a fight no less monumental than Salamis, or Lepanto, or Trafalgar. Japan's Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, architect of victory at Pearl Harbor, had flung a vast armada of 200 ships and 700 planes across the Pacific to Wake Island and to the Aleutians, with the spearhead pointing toward a remote, strategic atoll called Midway (see map). His plan was to seize Midway, "sentry for Hawaii," draw out what was left of the U.S. fleet...
...foundation has poured millions into Eastern Europe, the Near East and Asia. In India alone it has spent $19 million on a vast network of community projects, conferences, training centers and publications-ranging from a model community center in Delhi in memory of Gandhi to helping spread the vidyapeeths (rural universities) in Mysore and other states. In Burma the foundation's work is so highly regarded that when Rowan Gaither visited the country, Statesman U Nu took the unusual step of declaring him a guest of the state. Commented one Indonesian official: "The foundation does not interfere...
...hostile type happen to collide in spite of anti-gravity will their matter interact violently. This may be happening. Several odd objects deep in space, e.g., the M 87 galaxy, seem to get large amounts of energy from an unknown source. These may be pairs of hostile galaxies, fighting vast duels of annihilation...