Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dawn last week one of the world's largest aircraft carriers, the U.S.S. Forrestal, her vast grey bulk towering out of the blue Levantine waters, steamed slowly into Beirut harbor. Hours later a party of Lebanese dignitaries headed by President Camille Chamoun climbed aboard, and the carrier headed back to sea for a demonstration of its capabilities. Among them: tight formations of dive bombers and jet fighters screaming over Beirut's rooftops, lifting away over the snowcapped mountains to the east and fanning out through the Bekaa valley between Lebanon and Syria...
...Jordanian Old City of Jerusalem. There he usually receives the fees for his Bedouin clients (according to the size and condition of the bits of manuscript). And there an international-and inter-credal-task force of scholars takes over, trying to fit the fragments together in a vast, incredibly difficult jigsaw puzzle...
Drawing examples from widely different branches of science, Oppenheimer showed how the use of analogy hinted at an underlying order of nature which the vast differences in the sciences themselves might hide. He warned, however, that there was great danger in "carrying analogy...
Benjamin Schwadran, editor of Middle Eastern Affairs, charged last night that the present American foreign policy would lose the vast Middle East oil reserves for the West...
...silicon to 1 billion parts of silicon) that the National Bureau of Standards still lacks a grading system for it. In minute amounts, it will enable electronics men to make transistors with nearly twice the heat resistance (up to 300° F.) of previous transistors, and open up vast new possibilities for the guidance systems in supersonic planes and pilotless missiles. Says President John Erik Jonsson: "This is the purest product ever made...