Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mayor of St. Mihiel, the Municipal Council and the Cure have all complained! When they look to find what the Massachusetts memorial is they see a wide-open speakeasy run by squatters. It is a dump with old shacks and tumble down buildings on it. The French authorities cannot interfere, as it is Massachusetts territory...
...admission to college and the evident waste resulting from student failures have emphasized, however, the necessity of wise selection. If better means can be discovered, or more accurate methods devised, they will be used in the selection of Yale students. In the meantime Yale will participate in the nation-wide study of these new aptitude tests...
...policemen on their beats, for instance, if headquarters wanted to broadcast the description and license number of an automobileful of thugs fleeing town. Chief Zober and his aids were impressed by the device's perfect functioning for a radius of 150 ft., waited only for a city wide demonstration to adopt the equipment for the Passaic force. Inventor Rusch claimed a 3.5-mi. radius on a wave length (15 metres) short enough to insure secrecy from the listening public...
...become abnormally in excess of demand. I wish to make it plain that I do not look for any radical drop in the volume of building. . . ." Owners of properties already constructed cried acclaim; owners of undeveloped real estate were dismayed. Said Metropolitan President Haley Fiske, knowing Mr. Straus' wide influence: "I am glad to see that the attitude we have maintained for a year is at last being recognized...
...Barratt is an Englishman whose wide experience and success in the world of musical comedy will serve to maintain the high standard of the club's shows. In order to get an early start he has issued a call for the actors of the Club to come out the second week after min-years, probably Monday, February 13. After several preliminary tryouts a tentative cast will be chosen, and the parts assigned...