Word: vastnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consumed in Russian cities, but Stalin's policy is to sell as much as possible abroad. Profits from grain and nearly all other kinds of export sales to go, of course, entirely to the State Monopoly-entirely into the State Treasury-and thus provide cash for such vast industrialization projects as the $25,000,000 contract just let to the International General Electric Company of New York (TIME, Oct. 29) for electrification in the Soviet Union...
...series of Harvard-Yale football games, though perhaps not the most thrilling participated in by Harvard teams of the last 50 years, is of continued interest because of the sustained and uninterrupted enthusiasm it has engendered and preserved in the vast undergraduate and graduate Harvard body. For 46 years the Crimson and the Blue have met on the gridiron; for 46 years have both teams been supported by thousands of Harvard and Yale adherents...
...rested on a great square pedestal, the whole being called the Takamikura. Enclosing the Takamikura with the spaciousness of an airplane hangar rose the mighty Shishinden or Temple of Enthronement. Beneath the eaves of its high thatched roof, the Shishinden was open along its entire Southern side, facing a vast court yard, with the Sun Gate to the left (East) and the Moon Gate to the right (West). Within the hangar, Shishinden, near but slightly to the left and behind the Takamikura, stood a similar "Throne," the Michodai, "smaller by a tenth" - for the Empress. Pedastals and chairs were lacquered...
...transmitter consists of a parabolic reflector, at whose butt end is an enormous vacuum tube. The tube sets like the heating element of the common portable electric heaters. The heater's reflector is basin-like. Dr. Kolster's radio reflector is so vast (20 feet across the rim) that it resembles a funnel...
...organic chemical which is manufactured chemically pure on a tonnage basis. Hydrocarbons are easily broken down. Atoms of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, may be taken from them, forming new and different hydrocarbons. Possible uses of sugar are in the manufacture of shoe polish, soap, explosives, fuel, essential oils. Conceivably a vast industrial opportunity lies behind the purity of sugar. The question: Why doesn't industrial chemistry find for sugar other factories than the stomach...