Word: wide
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Omen. Before men are done to death in battle, before walled towns are razed and wide-wayed cities sacked, there is almost invariably a potent omen. At Aulis it was a serpent with a blood-red back. In Roman days it was frequently a pair of eagles or a flight of swans...
...fraud that first brought international recognition to Gaston Bayle, a stupid fraud that caused his death. Five years ago one Emil Fradin, a shrewd peasant lad, dug up a number of curiously inscribed brick and clay tablets in a field at Glozel, France. Immediately the "Glozel Finds" attracted world wide attention. French archeologists announced that they were important relics of the Stone Age, wrote monographs. British and French illustrated weeklies printed elaborate facsimiles of the Glozel tablets, compared them in importance to Egypt's Rosetta Stone, Britain's Piltdown skull. Gaston Bayle was not impressed. With his test...
...viewed it-were delivered the Boston Herald and Traveler. Trustees of International Paper Co., whose purchase of these and other newspapers had excited great outcry because I. P. Co.'s owner is International Paper & Power Co. and because power companies' press activities have lately been viewed with wide alarm (TIME, April 22 et seq.), authorized the sale of I. P. Co.'s 50% stock interest in Boston Publishing Co.-a development long rumored (TIME, June...
...only forward of the day, one which was good for 25 yards and then Mason speed around end for 23 more yards. Five rushes at the tired second team line put the ball over with Mason carrying it on the final attempt. Putnam's kick was high and wide...
Baker Library may unquestionably be regarded as one of the outstanding collections in the field of business and economics. Its possessions are already large; its scope is wide: and it has begun to acquire a flavor of its own--a feature which of itself indicates approaching maturity. This collection has been brought together in the last twenty years, starting from practically nothing. Its major development is a lasting contribution by Mr. Charles C. Eaton to the enrichment of the Harvard School of Business Administration--a contribution which is the more notable by reason of the fact that the Librarian...