Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York, Researcher Marjorie Burns funneled their vast findings and volumes of book larnin' by the supermarket cartload (see cut) into Education Editor Bruce Barton Jr.'s office for this week's story on The First R. After his intensive cramming, Barton sent a revision of the first draft of his story to Senior Editor Hillis Mills with a note: "I have redoosed pages 3 to 7 to too pages. I hop you like it. Everything reads much quikker . . . Sory I cauzed all this troubel. I find that suddenly my abiloty to spel and right has desserted...
Feed, Don't Fight. As his solution to Algeria's troubles, Mendes called for freeing political prisoners held without trial, doling out free food ("It's cheaper than fighting"), honest elections within six months and ultimate splitting up of vast colon estates. Then, taking a lesson from the U.S. 1952 campaign, Mendes capped his proposal by dramatically offering to go to Algeria and stay as long as necessary "to surmount all obstacles...
...wealth should be used for the advancement of its people rather than the enrichment of its. royal princes. As Premier, he presides over a ten-man, nonpolitical National Development Board that by law gets 70% of state oil revenues, and spends the money ($204 million in 1955) on a vast plan to recreate in the Valley of the Two Rivers the sort of terrestrial paradise that existed there before the marauding Mongols under Hulagu Khan wrecked its irrigation system...
...rosa's charming // Matrimonio Segreto (The Secret Marriage), with such Scala names as Caro Badioli, Eugenia Ratti, Graziella Sciutti and Giulietta Simionato -all first-rate singers but not of world reputation. The opera has been performed scores of times at La Scala (last in 1948), but in the vast house it never came across with such gusto, immediacy or subtlety. The press was as happy as the audience, and only a few backstage complaints about the cramped space kept the accolade from being unanimous...
Second, the vast majority of potential and would-be lawyers are not sure at the time they enter college that they will, in four years, have the interest and the aptitude, let alone the necessary finances, to attend law school. It is natural for a student primarily, though not exclusively interested in the law to choose an alternative professional or business field as a major area of study. This scarcely prevents him from developing into a thoughtful lawyer...