Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wide opportunities for observation have left the impression in my mind that the three institutions at the vanguard of civilization in this country are these...
World Wheat Pool Conference. As so often happens to movements of profound significance and wide import, the world conference at Kansas City, Mo., last week of 200 men carrying on great wheat pools received little mention in the daily press. Nine western states of this country already have wheat pools in operation.* Their representatives were at Kansas City. So too were chiefs of the pools of Canada, Australia, Russia, Italy. From South America, Great Britain and elsewhere came messages approving the aims of this conference?to control the price throughout the world of wheat produced by no matter what country...
...room through whose wide windows a soft autumn wind stirred the curtains, Frederic Chopin lay on his bed and coughed. Friends gathered to gaze at his haggard face, to watch him, still clinging to empty and conscious eccentricities, scribble notes: "As this earth will smother me, I conjure you to have my body opened so I may not be buried alive...
...week the Symphony Society announced who its fourth guest would be-darkly handsome Clemens Krauss, conductor-director of municipal opera at Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. Herr Krauss, who looks more like a Spanish matador than an orchestra leader, has never visited the U. S. In Europe his fame is wide-as one-time guest conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic, as organizer of Wagner festivals in Vienna, Frankfurt, Salzburg. This summer he will be a leading figure at the 50th anniversary of the Wagner festival at Bayreuth...
...challenge ringing in his ears. So he discovered his vocation, and in the end, came to find his field and life work along the coast of Labrador, where his brave optimism, his resourcefulness, his skill and untiring devotion, have given him a name and fame now almost world-wide. Out of this vivid little book one gets the inner meaning of the well known story, told without seeming to be told, with "an artlessness concealing...