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Word: vastness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...manufacture of handguns would certainly cut down one source of supply, but the production of guns would hardly be eliminated. "It would create rather than solve a problem," says Lieut. James Eisel, an officer in Wayne State University's public safety department. "You would wind up with a vast black market supplied and run by organized crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUNS: NO CHANCE FOR QUICK RELIEF | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

...INFLUENCE OF Wizard on generations of pinball machines to come can only be guessed at; suffice it to say, it will be vast. For now, all one can do is hail, as Samuel Beckett hailed with unfathomed prescience more than twenty-five years ago, the "system, of singular beauty and simplicity, which consists in saying Bally...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: An Elegant Abstraction | 9/30/1975 | See Source »

...legs were dangling out over left field like the apples of God's eyes. It was one of those clear summer nights with a high sky and incandescent stars, just right for playing out romances and baseball games. The vast field stretched hugely and serenely in its allotted 500-foot arc, far below her gently swaying calves. And the white light from the towering black iron lamps stained everything into perfect hue: the brown and green of calves and grass, and the wine, orange, white of the players' uniforms. The colors collected perfectly into 50 baseball players for the Baltimore...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Weiss Up | 9/30/1975 | See Source »

...which freshmen look forward with much anticipation and excitement. I know that for upperclassmen registration is already something of a nuisance, since it entails filling out countless forms which they have already filled out in previous years. But for freshman going through the line and being wooed by a vast array of political, social, and religious organizations they are encountering for the first time, it is indeed a colorful and exciting occassion. Registering at Holyoke Center at some later time means separation from classmates on this emotion-laden day in their career at Harvard. It is the same as having...

Author: By Rabbi BEN-ZION Gold, | Title: Jews, Judaism, And the University | 9/23/1975 | See Source »

...experiences with the poor are face to face, not some drivel dreamed up by a professor who wouldn't be able to cope for one day with the real thing. I do not believe the solution is spending more money on these vast programs which help only those administering the program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOCK 'EM UP | 9/23/1975 | See Source »

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