Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's new ships, and well over half the total of Western Europe's output of armaments. In the first nine months of 1954, half a million British vehicles sold abroad for $725 million-almost one-third more than U.S. automobile manufacturers earned in foreign markets. The vast sterling area, which accounts for 40% of all the world's trade, is selling more than it buys, has a growing reserve of nearly $3 billion...
...climate similar to that of Paris in the 1900s. As Paris was then, Manhattan is host to thousands upon thousands of young artists from near and far, fired with enthusiasm for themselves and for each other. Many scorn the art schools, and find their instruction and inspiration in a vast weekly banquet of important and exciting art shows. Their feverish eclecticism, their penchant for picking at random among the established schools and philosophies, lends the whole a chaotic effect. But the fact remains that good art seen in such quantity and variety stretches the imaginations, and therefore the possibilities...
Greene has treated a common enough triangle story in religious rather than sociological-or even psychological-terms. The eye of God rather than of neighborhood gossips is upon it, and the problem is not only of the conscience but of the soul. This vast and difficult theme haunts its Catholic-convert playwright without for a moment ever easing his heart. Blinkered Catholicism and clear-eyed rationalism he alike denounces; indeed, beyond a blindly clutched and tormenting faith, Greene's spiritual cupboard seems bare. His well-meaning priest remarks that he has never read Paradise Lost-whose author also...
...With its vast collection of some 10,000 radio-TV manufacturing patent rights, Radio Corporation of America is in an enviable position: every one of its competitors pays RCA handsome royalties on just about every set they turn out. Though most of them are unhappy with the arrangement, they have been unable to do much about it. Last week the Justice Department decided to have a try, filed an antitrust suit in Manhattan's District Court...
Before the new building was constructed we never could have even imagined such a vast project," Rollins said. Another tentative iron in the fire made possible by the merger is the proposal for the Horbarium to join forces with an international botanical association for work on a definitive Plant Encyclopedia. A project like this, according to Rollins, may take 20 years...