Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their wives were, polishing top hats and brushing out morning coats. Engineers cleaned factory sirens and the police force rubbed its buttons honor bright. The S. S. Maui, with Heroes Maitland and Hegenberger aboard, was churning up under the western horizon from Honolulu. The Golden Gate was flung open wide to let the heroes...
...counteract that influence with the same energy and enterprise that was employed in his name to spread the ideas he now acknowledges were false. As the world's richest man, Henry Ford has the unique opportunity of making an amende honorable to the Jewish people by sponsoring a world-wide campaign of education against national chauvinism, religious bigotry and racial antagonism...
...Paris that during the next eight years he would try to 1) take 50 men (including ten scientists), many dogs and sledges and two planes, to explore the unmapped South Polar region,* which may be largely free of snow in antarctic summer months; 2) to soar over the wide jungles of Brazil, mapping mountains and rivers; 3) cruise the length and breadth of the Arabian Desert. Asked if he might not try a bird's-eye look at Mt. Everest, Commander Byrd said: "That's an interesting flight but it's not in my line...
...Judge Ben B.] Lindsey had acquired nation-wide publicity with his works and methods [in the Juvenile Court] and was doing great work here in Denver. It is too bad that he went off on a tangent as he did during the past few months."*?Judge E. S. Matthias of the Ohio Supreme Court...
...RISE OP AMERICAN CIVILIZATION (2 vol.)-Charles A. & Mary R. Beard?Macmillan ($12.50). The history of a people burns in tiny villages, in towns, in lonely farms. Sparks and flames glitter between the hills and pepper the wide deserts of land, spinning together, breaking, flaring, in a bright, continuous, tangled pattern, like stars and planets...