Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past six years, federal customs sleuths have been impounding, as fast as it poured into the U.S. from Europe and the Orient, a vast collection of erotica consigned to the Institute for Sex Research of Indiana University's Sexpatiator Alfred C. Kinsey. The Government last week gave Zoologist Kinsey and his sexociates until this month's end to show why the treasure-trove of pornography should not be destroyed. Protested Kinsey: "The issue involved is the right of a scholar to have access to material which is denied the general public." Among the material that the federals would...
...Served as public-health commissioner of Indiana between 1945 and 1954, when he was called to Washington. With only two years as a top-ranking official in the U.S. Public Health Service, Burney surprised Washington by his appointment (ahead of other leading contenders) to boss the Government's vast health organization (annual budget: $400 million...
...picking out two lines of poetry similar in some way other than in meaning (a) With jellies smoother than the creamy curd, b) When I consider how my light is spent, c) When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw), a student must show a high degree of literary perception. Each line has ten syllables, and each is in iambic pentameter. But only b makes little attempt to convey meaning through the sound of the words used...
...such a vast program, mistakes were inevitable. Courses in bartending and ballroom dancing flourished, as well as "schools" that promised professional degrees (e.g., in architecture) in seven months. By 1948 when the Veterans Administration clamped down, an estimated $500,000,000 had been wasted on fraudulent courses. But the program's achievements far outweighed its mistakes. It sent 10,000 veterans to universities in Europe. It turned out 238,000 teachers, 450,000 engineers, 180,000 doctors and nurses, 113,000 scientists and 36,000 clergymen. In the last six years the average income of the bill...
Like all great ships of the past, from the Greek trireme to the Yankee clipper, the supertanker was launched to meet a specific demand at a specific time. Supertankers have not only kept a vast and constant stream of oil flowing from the Middle East and South America...