Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally at 1:20 a.m., Adlai conceded and the remaining handful of people tried to be enthusiastic, with no noticeable success. It was all over, for four more years. Hotel workers began to clean up the vast litter of beer cans and banners which had accumulated on the floor...
...teary little dearie, and with a batch of sentimental tunes. Worse still, the Fay and Michael Kanin script carelessly tosses away one of the play's best ideas. There are men in the picture. In the play, men never appeared; it was as if the world were one vast, closed powder room. And though the scriptwriters have kept the play's plain plot (gossip wrecks marriage, husband marries golddigger, wife gets him back), they have jazzed it up with plenty of new wisecracks-some of them acute, others merely cute...
...most encouraging aspect of the University is its unquestionable desire to improve. With a vast field in which to work, Penn has undertaken an Educational Survey, designed to evaluate every department, school, and feature of university life. Several hundred thousand dollars and 260 men are involved in the study...
Earlier, the Bullpups capitalized on a vast superiority in depth to humble the previously undefeated Yardlings, 23 to 35. The freshmen in turn defeated the Tiger Cubs...
...complexities of that society steadily and inexorably multiply. In particular the call for individuals of increased insight, wider knowledge, firmer direction, and all the other qualities of mind and will which it is the colleges' chief purpose to elicit becomes ever more insistent. In the face of this already vast and enlarging obligation an educational institution needs constantly to be asking itself whether its practices are good enough to ensure that it is doing and is equipped to do what is expected...