Word: wide
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Samuel Longfellow will publish some reminiscenses of the early life and letters of his brother the poet, in the Christmas number of Wide Awake...
...This man is Dennison - whose fame was wide-spread...
...their glory shone, is fading already, as their glory faded. The bridge is all ablaze with red light, and the air is full of hissing rockets and golden rain. But the light in the old castle is dying. One by one the rugged towers, the pillars and sculptures, the wide, desolate windows return, to the solemn, brooding darkness whence they so suddenly leapt. Decay and ruin can be replaced - never reinstated. Black night settles once more, and into it looms once more the shadowy mountain. The last red ray quivers for an instant in the Octagon Tower and then goes...
...entire day. Most of them realized the exhaustive nature of the display and were already fortifying the inner man with sandwiches, cheese, bits of sausage, and bottled beer. Anxious fathers and mothers were wedging a slow and painful progress through the crowd, towing some half dozen shock-headed, wide-eyed offspring of graded ages and heights. Surely little Fritz and Heinrich and Annchen and Kaetchie must see the gay colors and the prancing horses, albeit the pressure of the crowd, forcing their tender necks against the ropes over which they hung on tiptoe, threatened slow strangulation, if not instant decapitation...
...journal is not to represent any special school or body of economic doctrine, but is to be devoted strictly to the promotion of scientific investigation and discussion, a wide diversity of opinion among the writers of signed articles may be expected, the journal assuming no responsibility and guaranteeing nothing except that the views set forth in its pages are the well considered opinions of writers having a good claim to the attention of an intelligent public...