Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your magazine out? How big is your office? How many men on your staff? Have you any correspondents or have you a wide-reading staff? How do you work your material together as you do ? Are your men ex-newspaper men ? I'll bet they are. I think TIME readers would enjoy hearing about these things...
Balked in line plunges and end runs, the Juniors resorted to the field goal route to break the ice, and Heard tried a difficult drop-kick from the side of the field, 30 yards from the goal. The ball travelled the distance, but went wide of the mark. Again in the second quarter, after a long march during which the Juniors tore off gain after gain, the 1928 quarterback tried a goal from the 15 yard chalk directly in front of the posts, but Ingalls, Sophomore guard who was a tower of strength in the forward barrier throughout the game...
Granville Dulse, graduate of the University of California in 1925, and last year special investigator for the street traffic survey in Chicago, as holder of one fellowship, is undertaking a nation wide study of the organization and function of police courts especially in connection with their handling of traffic problems...
...Yaqui last week in mere preliminary skirmishes involving no great loss of life. Uncharitable critics of Sr. Obregon and Sr. Calles have intimated that the anti-Yaqui campaign so grandiloquently projected will degenerate into a mere employment of the soldiers of the republic to coerce the citizenry far and wide into voting at municipal, general and presidential elections in a manner agreeable to Sr. Obregon and Sr. Calles. Though this charge is based upon half-truths, it is equally certain that operations against the Yaqui will simply result in the killing of as many Indians as possible, with little...
...Romulus and Remus anecdote, with the genders changed. Bishop Pakenham Walsh of Calcutta, back in London from a visit to the mission of the Rev. Jal Singh at Midnapur, Bengal, told the tale and vouched for its truth. Some months ago the Rev. Jal Singh was told, by the wide-eyed inhabitants of an isolated village in his parish, to avoid a certain path into the hills. It was, they assured him, haunted by demons. Strong in his faith, and armed against wild beasts, the Rev. Jal Singh proceeded up this path and near it found, not a dragon...