Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continent's center is a vast and featureless plateau 750 miles across and two miles high. And here, protruding into space, is the heartland of the antarctic's terror, the vat where much of its wrath and weather is brewed. Over this plateau sweep winds from distant seas, and here snow crystals have fallen like eider down, layer on layer, millennium on millennium. The meridians of the earth converge upon this great snow desert, closing in to pinpoint that half mystical, half mythical objective of adventurers, scientists and explorers, the South Pole. At the Pole the temperature...
...vast sense of selfimportance, and was too tough to have had it whipped...
...through mismanagement, inexperience, selfishness and corruption, nearly all the plans went wrong. Many miners, freed from tin-baron discipline, now work at the shaft faces only three hours a day. A vast above-ground bureaucracy milks the treasury for wages. Worst of all, mine commissaries, begun years ago to provide miners with essentials at subsidized prices, have grown out of all proportion because miners buy commissary goods to resell in black markets. Commissary sales last year were double the entire miners' payroll, and the subsidies amounted to 77% of the cost of running the mines. On the land...
...vast resources, PAX never budged the vast majority of Polish Catholics. Audiences listened skeptically when high-living Director Piasecki tried to explain why it was "necessary" for Poland's Red regime to jail Catholic bishops or liquidate Catholic charities. Many unsuspecting priests were arrested after their frank conversations were recorded by PAX men wearing concealed microphones; then Piasecki would offer to help free them in return for "cooperation." Only a handful accepted, and not a single renegade bishop could be found...
Here, with rats, pigeons, and vast quantities of electrical equipment at their disposal, members of the Psychology Department--as well as some undergraduate and graduate students in the field--carry on various research projects in general experimental psychology...