Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contest, at first singles, Ben Heckscher defeated Dartmouth's Dick Hoehn, 15-7, 12-15, 15-11, 15-11. There was little doubt as to the outcome of the match, for although Hoehn was excep- tionally quick and retrieved beautifully, he could not cope with Heckscher's power and vast array of polished shots...
...most significant event in the life of England's adolescent Labour Party was unquestionably the Russian Revolution. Immediately, instinctively, Labour moved to protect the new socialist state from the danger of extinction by the capitalist entente. The party--especially the trade unionists which formed its core--fully appreciated the vast gulf which separated the British socialist parliamentarian from the Russian Marxist revolutionary, yet it never ceased its work to ensure that Russia was given the same rights as any other state. At the same time, with a ruthless vigour, it acted to destroy communism at home...
...give a reassuring "You'll grow out of it," and let it go at that. At the other extreme, dermatologists have tried every conceivable remedy-vitamin A, vaccines, soaps, yeast, antiseptics, astringents, diets, hormones, ultraviolet and X rays, warnings against "picking." Despite such efforts, acne continues to afflict vast numbers of adolescents (variously estimated as 50% to 90%), many with skin-scarring, soul-searing severity...
This belief of Alexandre Dumas' Lady of the Camellias was shared by her vast public. For the 19th century, which made tuberculosis both romantic and fashionable, was sure that somehow it was inextricably connected with thwarted love and melancholia. Early 20th century medicine, which sought to explain everything through germs, laughed at the Camille school of diagnosis. But in recent years, physicians have once again begun to see a connection between tuberculosis and emotional factors. Now a hardheaded Scottish physician, David Morris Kissen, practicing among working-class victims in the unromantic setting of Lanark, has reached a diagnosis...
...Open the world to the people!'' was echoed by the industrialists and investors of his time. The Suez Canal was to be only a beginning: De Lesseps dreamed of making an inland sea in the Sahara Desert, and of uniting Paris, Moscow, Peking and Bombay with a vast intercontinental railway...