Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cleveland, with a big foreign-born population, has given Dr. Kessler ample opportunity to see the differences. The vast majority of patients whose native language is not English, he finds, form the sounds of n, l, t, d, s and z with the tip of the tongue placed near to or against the back of the upper front teeth. No matter what a dentist does in fitting new plates, he is unlikely to interfere with this process. But patients with English as their native language hold the tongue higher - against the alveolar ridge just behind the base of the upper...
Federal budget cutbacks should not affect these two projects. However, they represent only the very beginning of a vast program for urban renewal for Cambridge, the remainder of which will be seriously jeopardized by budget reductions, in the opinion of the Citizens Advisory Committee...
Father Davis' prescription: "Protestants and Catholics should get together to talk over-not merely their differences -but also the vast areas of common concern which they have. I think that Catholics should take the initiative...
...move that surprised friends and foes alike, Segni gave the new Cabinet post to brawny, brawling Giuseppe Togni, 53-year-old founder-president of CIDA, the Italian business executive union. A onetime marble cutter who worked his way up to a top management job in Italy's vast Montecatini chemical company, Christian Democrat Togni is a vocal exponent of free enterprise. He is also one of Italy's most unrestrained antiCommunists, two years ago set off the worst riot in Italian parliamentary history by bellowing at Communist deputies: "I would like to know how many ex-spies...
...color is triumphing over form, as a church steeple sways insanely in a polychromatic storm. Then, in the first modern, purely nonobjective paintings (1911), there emerges a separate world of Kandinsky's own, having nothing to do with external reality-a world made up of a vast orchestration of colors, exploding with light, air, energy, catapulting out of the canvases...