Word: vastness
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...HOLLIS is considered by its operators to be well-adapted to Harvard's needs, which library spokesman Barbara Mitchell describes as "extremely complicated and vast." The University's research facilities span 98 separate libraries. Widener alone holds more than 3 million volumes...
...HOLLIS is considered by its operators to be well-adapted to Harvard's needs, which library spokesman Barbara Mitchell describes as "extremely complicated and vast." The University's research facilities span 98 separate libraries. Widener alone holds more than 3 million volumes...
...HOLLIS is considered by its operators to be well-adapted to Harvard's needs, which library spokesman Barbara Mitchell describes as "extremely complicated and vast." The University's research facilities span 98 separate libraries. Widener alone holds more than 3 million volumes...
Maggie and Ira Moran, the middle-aged couple of Breathing Lessons, are not out to impress us with special interests or personalities. The pair represents that vast majority of Americans who live lives without life-styles. Both characters came of age during the postwar conservatism of the 1950s. After 20 years of depression and war, a future that promised a secure job, a steady mate and two children seemed more than enough. There were, of course, degrees of modest expectations. Maggie recalls the remarks of her childhood friend Serena, just before Serena married a boy named Max: "It's just...
...traditional Soviet objective. But ironically it may prove necessary for the success of perestroika. It may be, as the dissident writer Vladimir Bukovsky suggests, that the only way for the Soviets ultimately to salvage their bankrupt system is by neutralizing Europe and harnessing its energy, technology and vast wealth -- not by occupation but by the domination that would follow a detachment of Europe from...