Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...YORK, Dec. 16--The worst subway strike in New York's history ended tonight, after eight days of vast transit confusion above and below ground. It had persisted in defiance of state law and court order...
Collector Guggenheim's vast private museum embraces, as British Critic Sir Herbert Read once put it, "all the major movements which since about 1910 have transformed the very concept of art." Items: Marcel Duchamp's Lonely Boy on Train, from the same period as his famed Nude Descending a Staircase; examples of the 1913 Moscow Suprematist movement by Founder Malevitch and Follower Lissitzky; key works by Mondrian, Kandinsky, Braque, Picasso and Pollock. So famous is her collection that Venice's international Biennale once gave her a pavilion all to herself. Says Peggy: "It was wonderful...
...being driven out of the civilized areas, they are rapidly multiplying. Their greatest enemy is not the oilmen, but the Alaska Railroad-a creature of the conservationist Interior Department-which last winter killed 366 moose on the tracks. For those moose who prefer desolation to civilization, there are vast areas of ideal scrub brush and timberland outside Kenai untouched by man or derrick. In fact, only 10% of Alaska's moose live in the preserve...
Died. James Alexander Linen Jr., 73, chairman of the board and onetime (1937-55) president of International Correspondence Schools World Ltd., Inc. (a vast learn-by-mail enterprise with more than a million alumni in 59 nations), Scranton, Pa. civic leader, father of TIME's Publisher James A. Linen III; of a heart attack, in Waverly...
Gervaise. Emile Zola's L'Assommoir, a vast cry of rage at man's fate, diminished by French taste into a touching story of a woman's ruin; with Maria Schell (TIME...