Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When he struts forth in a black shirt, his round eyes wide and straining to flame like II Duce's, Signor Francesco Marini, Director General of the Milan Schools, is a terrific sight at which small Marias and Beppos quake...
Plainly John Chinaman had opened his mouth so wide and bitten off so huge a chunk of foreign property that he was all but strangled. Pitifully enough, some coolies who saw starvation loom repaired the flagstaff of the British Consulate, which they had torn down a few days before, and ran up the Union Jack-though unwittingly upside down. A symbol, it was Hankow...
...Simon S. Baker of Washington & Jefferson College (Washington, Pa.) made a pilgrimage to Manhattan, where he interviewed employers and employment agencies from J. P. Morgan & Co. and the Carnegie Foundation on down. Last week President Baker announced that, to his great surprise, much that Mr. Babson had said received wide endorsement. President Baker hurried back to his post, to make some changes at Washington & Jefferson...
...some time the Fogg Museum has been interested in promoting student activity in the more accessible fields of collecting. Typical examples of subject matter and technique compose this Degas "show". Early pastels of ballet dancers and late wash drawings indicate a wide range. The color scheme of cool grays and warm tints shows Japanese influence. Interesting compositions are noticeable throughout...
...boards of aldermen have already forbidden the showing of Chaplin films in their municipalities because of the charges of immorality brought against him by his wife in her suit for divorce. If his wife proves her point we may not unreasonably expect such a procedure to be nation-wide...