Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Earlier in the day Mrs. Coolidge had arrived with cherished personal belongings to see that the 30-room house was in order, the corps of White House servants deployed. In her third-story bedroom clothes were hung in wide closets, her dressing table put in homelike shape...
...second night. At last, impatient, he sent word to Senator Curtis, Republican floor-leader: It was imperative that the Deficiency Bill be passed before Congress adjourned. From the Senate no word, no more bills came for the Presidential signature. But 165 measures had been signed, many of them of wide importance. Among them were...
Others, at night, lit torches from their fires, set ablaze piles of sugar cane over wide-stretching fields. All about the district, thousands of tons of cut cane lay spoiling. The Governor General pondered, considered the arrest of strike-leaders, sought for new ways to end the strike...
Comet. This was the man and these were the words which came as unheralded as though a comet had struck Manhattan and dissipated far and wide its gaseous tail. Where does the four-month Kerensky regime fit into the 'ten years elapsed since Nicholas II signed his abdication on March 15, 1917? Significant years...
With the six of the ten Conference universities having stadiums that seat from 55,000 to 90,000 and the nation-wide recognition of the high stand of the Conference in matters of eligibility and recruiting of athletics, the Conference offers a good field for intersectional games with Yale, Harvard, Princeton, which take an equally high ethical stand in these matters in the east...