Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Evangelist Billy Graham would make a splendid choice . . . He has influenced vast multitudes...
Heartening Victory. Despite the Red outcries and the government silence, the U.S. policy seems to be catching on. Last week there was a significant labor election at the vast Bombrini Paroei-Delfino ammunition works in Colleferro. south of Rome. Management feared Communist gains because 800 men had just been laid off. The Colleferro plant is Italy's biggest ammunition supplier; about 18% of its business is in offshore orders. In last week's election, the Communist vote (once a fungoid 68% ) dropped from 30% to 23.8%. At the same time, the vote for the rival non-Communist federation...
...trials were the legal facade for a vast purge in which half a million Russians are believed to have been shot and another 7,000,000 sent to slave camps. Britain's Laborite Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin said later: "I cannot look him in the face without expecting at any moment to see that cruel mouth begin to drip with the blood of his thousands of victims...
...that there is a real contrast between the woes of today's youth and "those classical descriptions of the storms of adolescence detailed by Shakespeare, Goethe, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Twain, Dickens, Joyce, Mann and the rest." These, he says, were all inward storms. "Lust was in their creations, also vast and devouring if nameless hungers, as well as cosmic yearnings, strange thirsts, occult sensations, murderous rages, vengeful fantasies and imaginings that catalogue all of sin and crime. But, unlike the sorry six from Brooklyn and New Zealand, in them these impulses were contained within the skin's envelope, merely...
...Shapley promptly published in "Popular Astronomy," won a scholarship to Princeton, and dashed through his Ph.D. in a year. His brilliant work attracted the Mr. Wilson Observatory staff, on which he served from 1914 to 1921. "During this period," Shapley recalls, "I developed my ideas for measuring the vast distance of the Universe." His theory prompted fellow astronomers to call him a "modern Copernicus" for the discovery that the sun is at the rim of the Milky Way Galaxy and not near the center. "I've been attacked for lots of reasons," Shapley remarks, "but the charges against my basic...