Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been said that England is separated from the rest of the world by a vast gulf called cricket. If this is true, a small bridge was built across the abyss on Monday night when the Harvard Cricket Club held its first meeting of the 1955 season. For the first time since the reformation of the club three years ago it discovered enough prospective members at its organizational meeting to fill an 11-man team...
...Although the Soviet bloc hauls 85% of its freight by rail (v. less than 50% in the U.S.), it has only half as many locomotives as the U.S. and Western Europe combined, and only 3% of them are diesels or electric. Little Britain has more freight cars than vast Russia...
...grain. Previous failures to control the peasants in this area (e.g., in the Dearly '30s, when farmers slaughtered millions of head of cattle when forced to collectivize, and in 1950, when they burned haystacks as a protest against new regimentation) led Khrushchev last year to undertake a vast switch in Soviet agricultural effort: to grow wheat on some 100 million acres of marginal and semidesert land in Siberia. Tens of thousands of young party workers and more than half the country's agricultural-machinery production are being shipped out to Kazakhstan and Altai. But the life...
...Time of Your Life (by William Saroyan) remains, after some 16 years, the most engaging of Saroyan's plays. Revived at the City Center, it suffers less from the ravages of time than from the unsociableness of space: in that vast hall, the play's intimate, childlike mood never quite lassoes the audience. But what was always brightest about the play-its procession of cockeyed characters through the swinging doors of a waterfront dive- still has considerable lure. Its old Kit Carsonish liar, whose opening gun is "I don't suppose you ever fell in love with...
Outboard & Inboard. But the heaviest buying was in the vast array of smaller inboard cruisers, outboards and utility runabouts. Despite increasing costs, boatmakers have held prices to last year's level, and the show had something for every bankroll. Besides the inboard cruisers, twelve boatyards showed off new, inexpensive, outboard cabin cruisers at prices between $1,300 and $2,500. The cruisers, up to 23 ft. long, can sleep two, do 20 m.p.h. with two motors on the stern. For penny-pinching do-it-yourselfers, who knocked together 30% of the 300,000 pleasure boats built...