Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...take the Negroes out of jail. The unearthing of this story was attributed to Walter White, Negro, of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The exuberant journalism of Editor Swope pushed the issue to the doorstep of Governor Thomas G. McLeod. The World reporter gave it wide publicity and helped bring about an investigation of Sheriff Robinson's alleged offense. A few of the South Carolina newspapers took up the cry of the World against the Sheriff, but the new gentry and their press flayed the World for sensational meddling. Said the Yorkville (S. C.) Enquirer...
...authors of these experiments were one Alfred Loomis of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., and Professor Robert W. Wood of Johns Hopkins University. The latter, many a layman recalled, is a genius of wide and varied activities. It was he who devised the method now so common of thawing frozen water pipes by passing electricity through them. Color photography and extensive researches on light have earned him important medals. He has studied secret signaling. He has written diverting fiction as well as three volumes on physical optics. His woodcuts are well-known, especially those illustrating the nonsense rhymes, How to Tell...
...Steel is now remodeling its Homestead plant to manufacture beams of this type. Anent this, Judge Gary said, in the Iron Trade Review: "We are building a mill which will be prepared to manufacture a wide flange beam." Bethlehem President Grace countered: "Bethlehem has an exclusive license under numerous patents which have several years to run, and which cover the process for rolling the so-called broad-flanged sections as a product." It may be that the Judge, always perspicacious, is looking far years ahead. Yet the ingredients of a fight already exist...
...that Harvard will beat Yale today even if I have to leave the little woman in the stands by herself while I go down and tell Coach Horween just what to do. And she won't mind it for she is all wool and a yard wide speaking in round figures that is. Moreover if Harvard does win she has promised to go with me after the game to a justice of the peace and you can guess what will happen then, Lucky girl. So I am prophesying today a victory for Harvard and a tie for Joe Forecast...
...School campaign for a $5,000,000 endowment fund opened on October 25, to be carried on as a nation-wide drive, making its appeal not only to Law School graduates, and lawyers alone, but to any who are anxious to see an improvement in the legislative and judicial branches of the government. "Vast funds have been given to research in the fields of medicine and science," read the appeal that opened the drive, "but in the extremely important field of jurisprudence there have been no large endowments for research that would result in as lasting good as medical...