Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...choice system was frowned upon by a large number of freshmen who received their bottom choices, because most thought there would be little chance of receiving anything below choice number eight. In addition, the 12-choice system seemed to promote speculation for choices. Students thought there was a vast difference in one's chances of being assigned to choice one, and those of being placed in choice 12, Ann B. Spence, associate dean of the College, says. "Basically, when you maximize first choices, the chances of getting the last three or four are pretty high," Spence adds...
...average fan is not aware of the vast talent that atrophies on the bench. Harvard traditionally has received the most abundant number of talented athletes in the Ivy League. Inefficient and inequitable utilization of talent is not acceptable in an institution that operates under the philosophy of "athletics for all." To deny a capable young athlete an opportunity to play on criteria other than ability can be a disruptive influence on daily college life; an added mental and emotional burden must be faced, and opportunities to participate in more favorable activities are missed...
Papa was a self-made Ruhr upstart who earned a bundle speculating in scrap after World War I, created a vast industrial empire, and earned a seven-year war-crimes sentence for making P.O.W.s do forced labor for Hitler. Flick Senior bounced back after serving only three years of his sentence. Released in 1950, he was ordered by the Allies to sell his rich holdings in either coal or steel. He chose coal and collected more than $50 million, which he used to build an even more prosperous empire based on petrochemicals, paper, steel-and Daimler-Benz stock. Today...
...startlingly different world. Vast areas of the Northern Hemisphere were covered with ice. Across the ice-free parts of Europe and Asia, consisting largely of tundra and great treeless steppes, herds of mammoths, bison, reindeer and horses freely roamed. For long periods, winters were cruelly cold, and even in summertime the average temperature was 12° to 15° C (54° to 59° F.). Still, under these difficult conditions, during a period of 25,000 years before the dawn of civilization, the Ice Age Cro-Magnon people not only thrived, but created a surprisingly sophisticated culture that totally...
...first acts of rebellion in the camps were made possible by a miscalculation of Stalin in 1948. Desirous of worsening thelot of political prisoners, he established the Special Camps described in Solzhenitsyn's novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. For the first time, vast numbers of politicals (incorrigible "enemies of the people") were segregated from common criminals (redeemable "class allies"). Once free from the scourge of the murderers and thieves who terrorized them, the politicals gradually gained courage...