Word: whole
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government informs the National Assembly that it was the intention of certain malcontents to cause a rising which was to have taken place simultaneously through the whole of Spain during last night...
Last week tall, patriarchal President Masaryk received from Dr. Svehla his resignation as Prime Minister. For a whole year the pallid statesman has been trying to arrest the course of a malignant disease at various European spas. In the case of the Mystery Man, "ill health" is no mere excuse, but the true and tragic reason for a great statesman's retirement...
...burst upon Europe, the wisdom of M. Pashitch's course was seriously in doubt. He lived to see it supremely vindicated, from the Serbian standpoint; for the peace treaties gave to Serbia additional territories of 59,400 square miles, including huge slices of Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria, and the whole of the little realm of Montenegro...
Examinations were made to be passed, but the character of the divisional may be changed by making it merely an opportunity for the student to organize and express what he has learned of a whole subject in three full years of study and reflection. In the freedom of extended time the less ambitious will find an advantage and the capable undergraduate will more nearly approach an understanding of his field sufficient for him to attempt a small specialized job in the form of a thesis in his final year. From a hurdle for the honors men the divisional becomes...
Last week a whole westerly gale with a velocity of 65 miles per hour whipped the North Atlantic into mighty combers. Seven hundred miles off the Virginia Capes wallowed the little Italian freighter Florida, bound for Naples. Its steering gear was broken, it was inundated by ferocious seas. For four days the crew lived on fruit and water. Frantically Capt. Giuseppe Favaloro flashed SOS signals. Several nearby vessels received them. But, not having radio compasses, which indicate the direction from which signals come, these ships could not locate the Florida...