Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's architects come to see what is going on in Chandigarh," said India's Prime Minister Nehru. Then, before a vast crowd of officials, clerks, laborers, housewives and children, Nehru troweled mortar from a silver bowl and set the cornerstone for a gigantic, tower-topped legislative hall. The building will be the latest major edifice to get under way in the new capital of the Punjab, a site that only seven years ago was a cluster of mud hut villages on the grassy plain southwest of the Himalayas. Now one-third completed, Chandigarh (pop. 50,000) ranks...
Although it would be overly optimistic to expect the practice of education to duplicate the theory, it seems reasonable that the one bear a faint resemblance to the other. In respect to the grading of senior honors theses, the difference between the theory and the practice is so vast as to be almost incredible and easily intolerable...
Diefenbaker's vision called for the mineral development of the vast, empty northland for Canada's exclusive benefit. Some observers detected tinny overtones of anti-American sentiment in the vision's emphasis on economic nationalism and Diefenbaker's veiled warnings to foreign owners of Canadian resource industries...
John Gunther's Inside Russia Today is the profile of a nation-part guidebook, part political primer, part intelligence report. Much of the vast mosaic of facts, impressions, statistics and insights will be familiar to well-informed readers, but the design is unique and uniquely Gunther's, and so are some of the brightest fragments...
...correspondents covering the Indonesian civil war, the main problem has been to find the war. With no defined front line in vast Sumatra-more than twice the size of Korea-most of the skirmishes between the rebels and President Sukarno's government have been as haphazard as blind man's buff...