Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mayas played a game which might be the ancestor of our modern game of basketball" declared Dr. Morley in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "We have found the great stone courts in which this game was played. The floor measured 100 yards long and 30 yards wide. The court was not enclosed at the ends, but the side-walls were parallel, and rose to a height of 25 feet. At the center of each of these side-walls, near the top, projected a stone ring some 14 inches in 11-ameter, fixed perpendicular rather than horizontally...
...among the laboring masses is the Passaic strike. Here the mill-owners have attempted the age old intolerably stupid method of force and terrorism in an attempt to beat back the demand for reform. They have succeeded only in arousing greater determination among the strikers and in attracting nation wide attention to the intolerable conditions among the textile workers...
...days later, President Coolidge made his official pronouncement on the election: 1) The only nation-wide election was in the contest for the House of Representatives, and there the Republicans successfully defended their majority; 2) The Senate elections were held in only a few more than one-third of the states, were local in their issues, and hence were no repudiation of the Administration: 3) Defeated Senator William M. Butler of Massachusetts would be urged to continue his duties as Chairman of the Republican National Committee; in fact, he could give it more attention, now that he had done with...
...broadened, bringing with it more of the terrifying odors; a snort of alarm, figures of men and horses galloping from concealment, the crack of rifles, carnage. As survivors of the herd thundered off into fastnesses of their island (18 miles long, five wide), they could not know the worst: that this was no casual foray by human meat-hunters, but slaughter by up-to-date sportsmen, with intent to decimate. Not hunger but commercialism had precipitated the onslaught. The buffalo of Antelope Island were doomed, all but about 50 of them, to make way for more manageable and profitable cattle...
...take the case of national bag limits on migratory birds. There is a nation-wide fight for reductions in these . . . the biggest flight of wild ducks through the Mississippi Valley that we had seen in autumn for 20 years. This year we again had a deluge of ducks...