Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rooting interest. Egged on by TV (which devotes an estimated 9,000 hours each year to bowling), they have succumbed to an athletic urge to topple tenpins themselves. When the 54th annual championships began in Fort Worth last month, the American Bowling Congress needed every inch of the vast Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum to accommodate 16,000 competitors from all over the country. Last week, after five weeks of clamorous competition, the tournament was still drawing big crowds. With only two weeks to go, the battle was so close that it was still impossible to pick a winner...
Everyman is probably the most superb and crafted of the vast genre of medieval morality plays. Perhaps the closest thing to real "folk drama," the morality play is charming by reason of a naivete of style combined with a poignant knowingness of human nature and foibles. An allegory of sin and redemption, Everyman is perhaps the most powerful and best known "idea play" in Western dramatic literature...
Italy, from top to toe, is a vast museum containing some of the greatest monuments of Western civilization. But it is rapidly becoming one of the world's most ill-kept storehouses of classic art. ¶ In Venice, the parish priest of the 12th century church of San Felice, off the Grand Canal, was forced to stop in mid-Mass last spring as cracks suddenly opened across the church nave walls, showering the congregation with plaster. Near by, the floor of world-famed San Marco is sinking, Santo Stefano is developing its own leaning tower, scores of palazzos...
...power from public dams built under the New Deal is now inadequate, and few new industries are moving in. As a result of this-and the Democratic victories in the Northwest last year on a public power platform-there is growing pressure for more Government help in developing the vast Columbia River basin. Below Hell's Canyon on the Snake River (chief Columbia tributary), private power had planned two power-only dams at Pleasant Valley and Mountain Sheep. Though approved by former Interior Secretary Douglas McKay, the plans were tentatively disapproved by an FPC study last month that favored...
...real question is how educational it is to read a book solely to pass an exam. Certainly it can on occasion be a good thing since there is the possibility of becoming engrossed in the book. But preparation for Generals more often consists of a hectic race through a vast mass of material, the only result of which is a permanent prejudice against certain English authors...