Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deal. A rare combination of huckster hustle, athletic endurance and intellectual curiosity keeps Weaver thinking, talking and grinding out long memos on subjects far beyond NBC's practical problems of the moment. "We are talking long-term vitality," he explains as he spouts notions for vast, if often vague, future enterprises. The public will not accept culture in large doses, Weaver believes, but through his spectaculars and other major NBC shows, he thinks that small injections of ballet, music and other serious arts have been paving the way for larger and larger doses. "This is integration of great cultural...
...spite of the approaching season of holiday cheer, television's week began like a vast coast-to-coast autopsy. March of Medicine performed a gory operation on a man's heart artery in front of the TV cameras. Medic, sounding less and less like a Dragnet-in-bandages and more and more like daytime soap opera, told a pathetic story about a young girl with breast cancer. Robert Montgomery presented a full hour of smilin' through muscular dystrophy and multiple sclerosis. But while he recuperated, the televiewer was able to find cheerier fare...
Does the U.S. need a further easing of credit? To most economists the answer is just the opposite. The Administration, for example, is worried about the stock-market boom, but there is no move afoot to try to check it. The greatest worry is the vast supply of mortgage credit, especially veterans' loans which permit houses to be bought with little or no money down...
...forms vast amounts of nitric acid out of atmospheric oxygen, nitrogen and moisture. There may be enough of it to acidify the rain over large areas, with adverse effects on vegetation...
...SAGAMORE HILL, by Hermann Hagedorn, showed Teddy and his family at home leading a life so strenuous that it seems a wonder he ever had a chance to write THE LETTERS OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Vols. VII and VII, edited by Elting E. Morison, brought to an end the vast correspondence of the liveliest writer who ever held the presidency...