Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last fifty years have seen a vast change in the scope of the schools. Schools no longer teach only academic disciplines. They have expanded their function to include every variety of learning, from home economics to life adjustment...
...Dalton is almost certain to be beaten next month. The result will be a loss for the whole South-not because Dalton is Dalton or is a Republican but because Harry Byrd, who could have used his vast influence for moderation, has chosen to win his victory by preaching defiant white supremacy. Democrat Almond, in winning the governorship on such terms, will inherit a state of chaos and hatred when the Supreme Court moves against Byrd's system of legal subterfuge...
...Consort. More than almost any other public office in all the world, the job of consort to a reigning Queen is what its holder chooses to make it. The vast, amorphous amalgam of protocol, precedent, precept and law which is the British constitution contains no passages outlining a consort's duty. Most of the consorts who preceded Philip did just what they chose. With a prosperous kingdom of his own, Philip of Spain only occasionally visited the British realm of his wife Mary Tudor, who reigned from 1553 to 1558. Methodical William of Orange (1689-1702), declaring firmly that...
...more than titles. Appalled by the bumbling management of the royal household, he filled the palaces with labor-saving devices, radiotelephones, central heating, electric dishwashers and intercoms, removed unnecessary flunkies right and left to more useful work elsewhere. He boned up on modern farm technology to put the vast royal estates at Windsor and Sandringham on a paying basis, and even, according to one weary farm worker at Windsor, "told us where to plant the marrow...
...argues that General Aniline was really controlled by Swiss and other non-enemy interests, asked the United Nations International Court of Justice at The Hague to decide who really owns General Aniline. It is a rich prize: under U.S. stewardship, New York-based General Aniline has grown into a vast chemical and camera-supply (Ansco) empire with assets of $163 million and sales last year of $133 million...