Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have an International debate here with the University of Sydney, Australia, on the question: "Resolved, that the Modern Press exercises a harmful influence on the Community." Iowa State will uphold the negative. Since TIME is a weekly newsmagazine* which attempts to assimilate and re-picture news from a wide variety of sources, your staff must be able to present some very definite conclusion about the effects of news, editorials and advertisements of the Press of the country. Would you mind, therefore, telling me briefly what this re-action is, and how the TIME staff is guided in its own editorial...
...State. Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis (then a confidential secretary to Secretary of State Gresham) picked him up as an able stenographer, then lost him when he went into the bureau of indexes and archives. By day, young Clerk Carr rummaged around among the dusty State documents with a wide-eyed, temperamental youth named Francois Jones who had worked in Paris; by night, the two became wrought up over the evil effects of politics on the diplomatic and consular services. Finally in 1895 they drew up a bill for the organization of the foreign services on a merit basis. Politicians laughed...
...others (notably Herr Doktor Oswald Spengler) profess to find in a decline. He has equipped himself to serve the Western World as one of its philosophers by visiting practically all the world. The publication of his Travel Diary of a Philosopher last year gained him his first wide hearing outside of Germany, being an account "not so much of countries and peoples as of civilizations and states of souls." This Diary moved the New York Times to compare the author with Dante. Dr. Glenn Frank thought: "Keyserling may turn out to be a John the Baptist." Even dour Dean Inge...
Tomorrow at 3.30 o'clock, Tito Schipa, of wide fame as a concert tenor as well as a leading operatic singer, will give a recital at Symphony Hall. Mr. Schipa is possessed of a voice of beautiful warm quality, and this combined with the program he has chosen should make the concert very enjoyable...
...committee of the American Historical Association has initiated a nation-wide survey to determine "Why graduate work in history leads to so little productive research on the part of holders of Ph.D. degrees," it was announced by the Association Headquarters yesterday...