Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard years, however, had been far from futile. It was here that his style and outlook developed as it never had before, and would not again. During his years at Harvard, Wolfe acquired a vast literary background. He read voraciously, eight or ten books a week, even in the periods of his hardest work. Of Widener he wrote: "I wander through the stacks of that great library like some damned soul, never at rest--ever leaping ahead from the pages I read to thoughts of those I want to read." Wolfe possessed an amazing memory, and he was convinced that...
...World War II (except to send his Blue Division to fight against Russia). And he had avoided the postwar debacle of his fellow fascist dictators. Though denounced by the U.N. in its early days, Spain is now a U.N. member. And largely because of letting the U.S. build vast air and naval bases in Spain, Franco has in recent years got more than $1 billion...
Since its yeasty youth under moon-shooting Idea Men Paul Hoffman and Robert Maynard Hutchins, the vast Ford Foundation ($2.7 billion in current assets) has grown more staid. Latest evidence: the appointment of Manhattan Banker John J. McCloy, U.S. High Commissioner for Germany from 1949 to 1952, to succeed H. Rowan Gaither Jr. as board chairman. McCloy, 63, will take over in December without leaving his post as board chairman of the Chase Manhattan
...estimated 5,000,000 hunting dogs that will be roaming the autumn landscape, only a small percentage are formally registered by their owners, many of whom balk at the expense and bother. But the vast majority are purebred nonetheless and, as many a fond owner will testify, prove just as efficient in the field as those whose ancestry is a matter of record...
...great virtue of Harvard theater is the versatility and wide range which the present fluid situation makes possible. The reason for the vast number and variety of the productions Mr. Titcomb enumerates is the freedom from imposed standards of any sort which the Harvard director now enjoys. It is felt by many that the advent of concentration in drama together with strong faculty supervision in the new theater will result in the loss of this freedom. This is why the request for continued student autonomy in productions, so churlishly and peremptorily rejected by the Faculty Committee For The New Theatre...