Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manager of the varsity. He determines to win a degree at the law school, and he wins it, but in the way, he takes "time out" to serve for a year or more as Harvard's graduate manager of athletics. Then to be sure, he goes on into the "wide wide world." into practical professional life as a lawyer but to what ultimate purpose? Only one might say that the boy who had managed the freshman football team should gather maturity, develop judgment build up competence and experience as an executive, and then turn these all back...
...human race is by no means young. ... It is the inheritor of a very wide experience. It has located a great many fixed stars in the firmament of truth...
...parish of Pointe Coupee, was weakening. At last reports it appeared likely that the east-Atchafalaya system would give way, permitting waters from the Atchafalaya to join the main Mississippi stream after flooding the dry strip between the rivers. In this strip, about 100 miles long and 25 miles wide, are the parishes of Pointe Coupee, Iberville and Assumption with a population of about 80,000. Five other parishes to the south and west would be partially flooded. Meanwhile the Mississippi itself was falling from St. Paul to New Orleans and further fall was predicted...
...minutes' instruction." But Miss Davis had performed no astounding feat-considering the fact that she simply manipulated one set of controls of a dual-controlled plane, 1,000 feet above the ground. She was as safe as a person learning to drive a new Ford on a wide, straight concrete highway in the absence of traffic. If she had attempted to take the plane off the ground or land it, then she might well have encountered difficulties. It is on the earth or near it that green pilots have most of their accidents...
...charges to Providence to engage the Brown nine. This will be the second time this year that the Crimson batsmen have invaded the diamond purlieus of the Brown Bear. On May 7 the game scheduled for Soldiers Field was transferred to Rhode Island because of the conflict with Edvin Wide's attempt to break the world's record for the two-mile fun. On that occasion the Crimson hit hard behind airtight pitching by J. N. Barbee '28, and pounded out a 6 to 1 triumph over the touted Bruin nine...