Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Department of Agriculture issued a public warning: "In view of the wide spread of literature and advice of so-called 'diet experts' it seems desirable to warn people against adopting the dietary recommendations of those without real scientific standing in the community. Some of the advocates of freak diets are sincere, but are, themselves, deluded. Others are fakers. ... If the deductions of many food faddists, accepted as facts, were really operative, it would be difficult to explain how the human race has survived...
...friends Mr. Bruce pointed out an exceedingly wide set of "garage doors" opening from the cellar of his residence near Melbourne. The doors swung back, revealing an airplane. Said Prime Minister Bruce: "I got it to fly back and forth between here and Canberra...
...Lewis articles gained wide notice in the U. S. Editors-envied the Evening Post its coup. Foreign correspondents outwardly echoed the sentiments of the Evening Post's Miss Thompson in Berlin, who said to Super-Reporter Lewis with mock grudging: "I guess it's all right, but it does seem a rather long way of saying, as I could, 'Flew to Vienna. Quiet...
GIANTS IN THE EARTH-O. E. Rolvaag-Harper ($2.50). Over the wide grass lands the wind walked, making cat's-paws on a green ocean. Beret sat on the prairie schooner, staring at immensity, feeling the nostalgia that comes to those who voyage on desert places, land or water. Her husband, Per Hansa, walked through the waves, talking to the horses, to Olamund, their son. Beret looked at the dry and lonely sea. Even after the arrival in Dakota Territory, remembering her Minnesota village, she felt this loneliness closing around her. The sky and the green floor made no familiar...
...Hoboken was in court accused of henpecking her husband, allowing him only 50¢ per day to spend. Miss Patterson was sent to interview this unusual woman. Climbing to the top of a Hoboken tenement, Miss Patterson tapped on a door and at once confronted a beldame "about ten feet wide." Miss Patterson started to explain that she was from the Daily News. No sooner had she named that name than the "wide" woman approached, menacingly. "Downstairs I went," Miss Patterson told Editor & Publisher, "and not exactly right side up either...