Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, sole owner of the crown's 2.5 million acres, is Iran's biggest single landholder. Since 1950 he has distributed his vast farm properties to the peasants of some 100 of his villages. To help establish a new class of independent farmers, a Development Bank has lent the new small holders money at low interest. But his fellow landlords (who own 70% of Iran's arable acres, the vast majority of its 40,000 villages) have heeded neither the Shah's example nor his exhortations to sell some of their land...
Rejected by the "gentlemen," Reed turned next to Harvard's vast number of extracurricular activities--this time with success...
...organization representing American students has a vast potential for action. And the role which the NSA plays in international student affairs is an appropriately significant one. As only one of a vast number of better organized pressure groups in the United States, it is relatively ineffective. But in the foreign exchanges and relations which it promotes, it serves an indispensable function. No other group so effectively presents democratic views to the student leaders abroad where Communism expends a good deal of effort on student groups. Presuming that Harvard students are some day to be leaders of their country, it seems...
...issue working in the Republicans' favor. Yet in Kansas, Ohio and Colorado, the labor issue has been somewhat offset because right-to-work proposals appear on the ballot-to the distress of Republican candidates and the delight of Democrats, because right-to-work prompts organized labor to spend vast amounts of money in registration drives that usually work to Democratic advantage...
...lousy investments unless you have a good tax base and don't mind losing money." A good tax base is exactly what Stevens has-real estate operations ranging all the way from buying the Empire State Building in 1951 (he resold it in 1954) to subleasing a vast section of downtown Seattle. But Stevens also has another, special asset: he knows how to put the touch on other people. He raises vast sums as quickly as he can raise a telephone. Says Playwright Marc (Green Pastures) Connelly: "Stevens is a stage-struck shrewdie who brings nothing to the theater...