Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation was ruled by the incarnation or representative of some sort of Sun God or Son of Heaven, and each regarded the bull as the sacred animal, the chief constellation of the zodiac (or circle of life). "These correspondences," says Moran, "were not accidental. They were part of a vast cosmological system . . . The slaughter of a bull at the spring equinox on altars so far separated as Ur of the Chaldees and the Valley of the Han shows common roots in a common culture...
Morison's vast writings fall mainly into four categories. As Harvard Hestorian, a post in which he will continue after he retires from teaching, he wrote extensively on Harvard and its history for the Tercentennial celebration. Two of his other largest fields have been the history of Massachusetts and studies of Columbia and his voyages...
There has been a vast change in the pronunciation of the average song stylist. To those who find lyrics incomprehensible as well as obscure. I can only offer this advice: 1) Make no distinction between vowels, because the singers themselves make none; 2) Do not worry if monosyllables are turned into polysyllables: 3) The expressions "doo doo doo doo" and "du whah, du whah" are not meant to be words, but are to create a rhythmical effect...
...three plants in the, U.S., had expanded abroad with branches in France, Great Britain, Canada and Germany, "developing Europe," as Watson called it. He changed the company's name to International Business Machines, expanded still more. His high, stiff collars, his aversion to smoking and drinking, his vast store of aphorisms became trademarks of IBM to the outside world. Inside his company, he operated like a benign patriarch. IBM's workers were among the best paid in industry, had other benefits that few companies had. At company banquets, Watson liked to lead his employees in singing company songs...
...Roads Ahead. In the coming age of automation, unlimited areas for electronic machines will open up for IBM. For office work alone, Tom Watson Jr. sees a vast new field in swift baby computers for small companies. He envisions them in airline and train stations to handle the repetitive job of reservations, in offices to write business letters by drawing on prewritten paragraphs stored away in the brain's memory units...