Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inside the palace he found a sultanic shambles. The palace furnishings, once a vast treasure, had been smashed or looted by French police and local vandals. Of his collection of 60 clocks, four remained; of hundreds of porcelain and crystal vases, one. Gone were the royal family photo albums, as well as the Sultan's 56 cars, trucks and buses, which the French government had sold off. Where once was a private zoo, only three gazelles and an ostrich remained. Muttered Mohammed...
Some few among us seem to be successful experiments, much too valuable to be discarded lightly in the vast game of trial and error in which we are all discarded, in which we may indeed lead to something but may never, any one of us, be anything permanent. If we are to choose out of the men we thought worthy to survive beyond their times, our lists would be brief and they would not be the same, but Robert Sherwood would stand high in the balloting...
Weekday is short of being the most, but it is brisk, friendly and a lot freer and livelier than the old-style radio show with its predestined hourly, half-hourly and quarter-hourly breaks. It remains to be seen whether it will capture and hold the vast daytime, weekday audience of American women...
...corps of cadets stand from start to finish of every game-and at Texas A. & M. most of the students are cadets. A long and proud tradition of military training and service runs back to the school's foundation in 1876, when wolves and deer still roamed its vast, land-grant acres of Brazos County in east-central Texas. Today there are nearly 7,000 Aggies, and not a coed among them to hamper the self-conscious military discipline that has made the college a special favorite with many a Texas parent...
...reach Sheriff Byrd for a statement. The next week, with Byrd still silent, she front-paged an editorial that won her the second top award from the Federation of Press Women: "The laws in America are for everyone-rich and poor, strong and weak, white and black. The vast majority of Holmes County people are not rednecks who look with favor on the abuse of people because their skins are black. Byrd has violated every concept of justice, decency and right. He is not fit to occupy [his] office...