Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white problem, and the sooner it is recognized by all as such, the sooner it will disappear. It is the problem of how are we to convince the "white supremacy" racists that the conclusions of common sense, the principles of Judean-Christian ethic, and the consensus of the vast majority of mankind all point to the fact that there is no superior race and that all men are essentially the same...
...pioneers brought into the wilderness a respect for Anglo-American law. But they also brought the hatreds and half-digested lessons of Reconstruction years and a socio-economic system that would constantly conflict with the tradition of Anglo-American justice as those traditions lived and evolved among the vast majority of their countrymen...
...Gallery of Art, destined (it was hoped) to become one of the world's great repositories of culture, made possible by a gift from the late Andrew Mellon and a promise of perpetual maintenance from Congress. Before long, the gallery would open, with a great fanfare. Inside its vast walls of naked, flesh-colored Tennessee marble, the public would find a trove of masterpieces from the Mellon collection-such unparalleled works as Raphael's Alba Madonna, Botticelli's Adoration of the Magi. But the hideous truth was that the Mellon collection, for all its scope and grandeur...
This week the visiting British Lions are matched with another South African team, the Junior Springboks, at a game scheduled to-celebrate the opening of a vast new football stadium in Bloemfontein. But this time the cheers for Britain, if any, will be only sporadic. The city fathers of Bloemfontein voted to install no Jim Crow section and instead to ban all non-whites from the stadium. As is usual in South Africa, this was said to be in the blacks' own interest: "The non-Europeans," vouchsafed one Bloemfontein councilman, "derive the greatest benefit from taking part in sport...
...facilities, v. $300 a ton for entirely new capacity. The company is equally well fixed for raw materials. It has contracted for one-quarter of the rich ore that is already trickling in (and will pour in via the St. Lawrence Seaway by 1959) from the vast Labrador-Quebec fields, owns ore mines in four U.S. states and Liberia, operates its own coal mines and limestone quarries...