Word: vastnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Black-bordered and six-feet high, Willie's photograph hung above the stage in the vast Manhattan Center, where Willie lay in state. Beneath it was the sentence: "We mourn our loss." Four thousand of his union brothers & sisters crowded into the high-vaulted auditorium for the service. Outside 20,000 more heard the impassioned voice of Union President David Dubinsky exhort the mourners: "Little did we think that in 1949 we would have to sacrifice a man. What a mistake that employer made! This union will not permit it, no matter what the police department or the district...
...ruling now before the School Commission cannot affect the possibility of the HDC's using the Rindge stage. Seaver said, since either the three-day limit or the difficulty of filling the vast auditorium for an ordinary college production alone places it out of the Club's reach...
Most meteors are small, pea-size to walnut-size things that get their brilliance from their enormous speed. Only a few are big enough to reach the earth's surface before they evaporate. Once in a great while, a really big meteor smacks the earth with a vast concussion, digging an "explosion crater" like the one near Canyon Diablo, Ariz. Such craters are rare. Unless the meteor hits in an arid region, its dent is smoothed down quickly (in terms of geological time) by erosion and other natural forces...
...Look at one of your industrious fellows for a moment, I beseech you," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson in An Apology for Idlers. "He sows hurry and reaps indigestion; he puts a vast deal of activity out to interest, and receives a large measure of nervous derangement in return." Many a reader of R.L.S. was reminded of his appraisal last week by a more detached description of industrious, unhappy modern man, given by British Surgeon Sir Heneage Ogilvie in the British Medical Journal...
...Macao are backdrops for the others), but all of them have a common theme: the tragedy of a billion people caught in the tidal wave of change sweeping the Far East. Complementing this theme is the guilt-edged confusion with which Shaplen's white men duck the vast problem instead of facing...