Word: vastnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paintings were nine examples of Leonardo's unsurpassed draftsmanship and 66 models of his scientific inventions, ranging from ten-barreled machine guns and rocket-shaped projectiles to automatic roasting spits and a slave-powered air-conditioning unit for the Duchess' bedroom. They showed that in the vast chiaroscuro of Leonardo's mind, scores of the horrors and wonders of 20th Century science had hatched and died...
...once-clouded Mirror had a new, shinier look and Publisher Pinkley proudly reported: instead of 100,000, the Mirror now guaranteed a circulation of 140,000. The Mirror had not yet turned the corner financially, but it was a member in good standing of Greater Los Angeles' vast (22 dailies, 71 weeklies, 165 giveaways) newspaper community...
...only TIME [it appears] but the vast majority of our citizenry have little or no knowledge of the socalled "seniority clause" that infests almost every union contract . . . The "seniority clause" requires that the last to be hired must be the first fired; and the last hired includes some mighty fine young men, while the old "sluggards" remain to foment trouble, harass management and keep up costs...
...miles of corridors in the Pentagon, where Jim Forrestal had finally managed to get Army, Navy and Air Force together under one roof. Some of the Pentagon uneasiness and anger over integration had long since spread to the 1,650,000 men in the nation's vast military establishment. With the coming of Louis Johnson, old Army man and longtime friend of the Air Force, the unseemly feuding broke more openly into public view. There was no doubt of it; the shield of the republic was beginning to show some alarming cracks (see above...
...book: The Natural History of Mosquitoes, by Dr. Marston Bates (Macmillan; $5). Mosquitoes punch holes in man; they pester him, keep him awake, infect him with deadly diseases. So well-financed scientists, determined to deal with mosquitoes, have studied them intensively for more than half a century, accumulating a vast amount of information. But, as Dr. Bates points out, they have hardly begun to find out how even the best-known species go about their business...