Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been very much the same from year to year, and those who have known her all her life say that Grace Coolidge is very like Grace Goodhue, even very much like wee Grace Goodhue, who rode in her tall springy baby carriage of the period and looked out with wide, serious eyes upon the Vermont world and thought it a fascinating place, "Having no brothers or sisters for playmates and with no little girls of similar age and tastes in her neighborhood, she nevertheless did not feel the loss of companionship, because of the devotion of her own play-loving...
Sprightly Invitation. Though the rift between Asquithians and Georgians is too wide for Mr. Lloyd George to step automatically into the leadership of the party he did not neglect to bid for that post last week in a speech at Barnstaple. After referring to "that great Liberal leader, Lord Oxford, one of the most illustrious of the party's brilliant array of leaders," Mr. Lloyd George continued: "It is a crime to waste energy and enthusiasm on personal feuds...
...five days and five nights last summer, Dr G. Von Salis and Dr. W. Kolhoster of Switzerland sat on top of Mont Monch, which towers up to 13,465 ft. hard by the Jungfrau in the Alps. They had dug a pit twelve feet wide and 20 feet deep in the eternal ice of that summit, and lowered into it instruments extremely sensitive to radiant energy. Their procedure closely paralleled experiments conducted during 1923-25 by Dr. Robert A. Millikan of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics (Pasadena, Calif.), who first buried his instruments at sea level, then flew them...
Nevertheless, the party rift is a wide one, and five sacraments deep. When the presiding bishop, presumably a neutral, declared his intention of attending a congress of high-roaders, the low-road Episcopal press became filled with reverent indignation. When the bishop, the Right Reverend John Gardner Murray, refused to change his mind and did attend the congress, last week in Milwaukee, this indignation continued, high-road Episcopalians being filled with a corresponding amount of reverent elation...
...period of which Mr. Spinden tells is from 1670 to 1894 when the Mosquito Kings ruled a wide territory of swamp and jungle and the Mosquito fleets barred a thousand miles of reefrimmed shore line. The dynasty of Oldman the First ruled through these two and a quarter centuries...