Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christmas has degenerated into a spectacle of buying presents. Easter has become a time of buying new hats. Perhaps the Second Coming of Christ will be the occasion for vast sales of binoculars. The average American wouldn't swap his TV set for the best theologian who ever lived...
...faster Britain's empire has dwindled, the more precious the rest of it has become. The loss of the vast Sudan last year brought a hardening of British attitudes in Suez and Kenya. Communist revolt in Malaya made drastic action certain when other Reds made trouble in British Guiana. Not surprisingly, postwar Britain has turned to its colonies to 1) recoup its economy, and 2) restore its prestige. British Africa, with the bulk of the empire's area and population, gets top priority...
Pants in the Ants. In Journey to the Far Amazon, Explorer Alain Gheerbrant tells how, with one Colombian and two Frenchmen, he plunged into the "green hell" of the Sierra Parima between Venezuela and Brazil. That vast sea of vegetation, never before crossed by a white man, was filled with reptiles, insects and maiir eating fish, all unfriendly. One night in a grotto a scraping noise awakened Gheerbrant. It was an advancing column, 16 inches wide, of red ants. They had already devoured his belt, half his trousers and were starting on his leather camera case...
Food in the Sea. Author Alain Bombard's Atlantic adventure, set down in The Voyage of the Heretique, was even more primitive than Gheerbrant's Amazonian hardships. For 65 days and nights, from the Canaries to the West Indies, he was alone on the vast waters of the ocean (TIME. Jan. 5. 1953), living only on the fish and birds he could catch and eat raw and the liquid he could get from...
This kind of intense scholarship has not produced any consistent line of work, but has made a vast number of single forays at the edges of knowledge. Papers, articles, and published books comprising 123 pages of bibliography in the Society's book have been the concrete fruit of the Junior Fellows' efforts. Articles range in topic from "The Condensation of Ethyl a-Acetylpropionate with Ethyl Chlorofumarate," and "Human Relations in the Restaurant Business," to the welcome information on "Dry Cleaning as an Attractant for the Kelpfly." Books have varied as widely, discussing everything from the Earl of Rochester's poetry...