Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inches. A ten-inch record was the familiar thing. A twelve-inch record signified something long and probably boring-"Chocolate Soldier Medley," perhaps, or "Selections from La Traviata." The music of the people was not bedight with red, gold and purple seals and it was not twelve inches wide. Such stuff was suspect, for the elect. Not until radio proved that the people will listen to music, even concerts and operas, until the orchestra drops dead or the vacuum tubes blow out, did phonograph-makers realize what a musical bonanza they had failed to exploit. And if long-time records...
...dresses her, takes her to polo matches, rubs away the dust of Sussex and the bloom of spontaneity. Percival Fream, rich, meticulous, impotent, gives her first a diamond ring, then a marriage which includes all the luxuries save one. Mary gives dances behind the bright windows and in the wide gardens of Hill House but she cannot escape the knowledge that, for a steady diet, potatoes are more satisfying than candied rose leaves...
Author Deeping has all the facility which should be his after a decade of writing unpopular novels. He has not, however, added to this facility any of the qualities which make the books remembered. His people are seen through the wide end of the telescope; they are not Individuals through whom a type Is suggested, but rather flat and insignificant figures glimpsed through the blurring lens of gen- erality. A man of little skill with words, he gets his effects with pa- tience and a hammer. To his famed Sorrel and Son he attached a long-burning fuse...
Sixty seven books on a wide variety of subjects are listed in the Spring Announcement of the Harvard University Press. Of this Famber, fifteen are written by men on the Harvard faculty, and many others are the books of Harvard graduates. Both C. H. Haskins, A.M. '08, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, and H. E. Rollins, A.M. '16, professor of English have two books each on the list. "The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century" is the title of one of Haskins' volumes on Mediaeval history. His other work is a second edition of his "Studies in the History...
Captain Isadore Zarakov '27 led off in the next inning with a safe bunt, and moved to second on a wide throw by McCarthy. Lord sacrificed him to third, and a passed ball gave him a chance to cross the rubber with the run that gave Harvard the lead...