Word: wide
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...These twelve years were of incalculable benefit to Moliere, for in them he thoroughly mastered his profession of writer and comedian. His view was greatly broadened. Whereas other writers like Boileau, Feuillet, Bourget and Dumas fils, treat only of Parisian scenes and characters, Moliere by his extensive travel and wide observation was enabled to portray, with a striking reality, the life and the characters of the provinces. Many of his scenes and characters can be localized in some part of provincial France...
...results of Professor Trowbridge's experiments with the electrical spark, which he has been able to produce with the aid of his powerful storage battery, have created a wide-spread interest in the world of science and he has received most flattering letters from many of the leading physicists of the country...
...large courtyard in the centre is the key to the whole arrangement. It will be 125 feet wide and 90 feet deep. Across the rear, fronting on the Niles house, will be an ornamental iron fence, with gates on Linden and Plympton Sts. From the court there will be entrances to the stairways, each of which will serve two suites on a floor. There will also be two entrances on Bow St. As that street is lower than the level of the court the building will be one story higher there than on the court. The only corridor...
...contain a study, bathroom, and, as a rule, two bed-rooms, but there will be a few single rooms. Special attention has been given to ventilation and lighting. Every suite will have a street and court frontage, and in every study there will be a large window eight feet wide with a stationary window-seat...
...offered here than at any other American university, but students of other institutions take a vastly greater interest in what is offered them in this field. Although upwards of fifteen hundred dollars is offered annually in about twenty prizes for excellence in speaking and for essays on a very wide range of subjects, there has not been a year of late when there has been a sufficient number of worthy competitors to make it advisable to award all the prizes. Last year, it is true, there was a larger number of competitors than ever before, but even then only four...