Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rumble seat is not too wide...
...often it is suggested without its equally necessary corollary. If the tuition is to be raised to cover the expense of instruction, then student loan funds must be established to provide the equality in opportunity for intellectual development now made possible through endowed education or through the wide distribution of expense as in the case of state universities. This is the suggestion made by Mr. Rockefeller, as it has been offered by others as the natural consequences of higher tuition...
...Thomas Mann has been hailed far and wide as the creator of a new literary genre, as the consummate portrait painter of the modern world. Yet he seems to have done no more than to refine and elaborate this theory of a world of material objects. In the selection of a background for the great narrative painting which is "Magic Mountain", Herr Mann has displayed considerable cleverness. He has chosen an Alpine tuberculosis santorium, where life can be studied in simplicity without the usual consequent sacrifice of sophistication...
...their nation-wide search for new silver-screen talent, the backers of the drive sent representatives to 37 universities, attracting approximately 15,000 aspirants for a trip to Hollywood...
...privileged to view a Cambridge whose glory is its static calm; not for three years will they see the midsummer aura of languidness seize what is wont to be an alert and nervous university town; and not until then will they be able to enjoy in unrivalled possession the wide spaces of Mount Auburn Street where, safe from the deadly student motor car, they may amble at peace, buried is Harris and Bierwirth. Sophomores and Juniors, and even roaming. Seniors shall pass away, but these, the darlings of the riverbank, shall not pass away immediately...