Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cambridge University debating team which is touring the eastern colleges this fall were forwarded direct from Cambridge. Written by intimate acquaintances of the debaters who are in an excellent position to know the interesting details which appear in the accounts, they show the Englishmen to be men of wide accomplishment in varied fields. These three operators, who will dispute with the University team on October 28 at Symphony Hall, are Mr. H.G.G. Herklots of Trinity College, and Mr. A.L. Hutchinson of Christ's College, and Mr. W.G. Fordham of Magdalene College. The appended biographies reveal them as men of wide...
Quacks. "Recently the wide use of physical therapeutic methods by a group of more or less illiterate healers has unfortunately brought the problem into prominence again. The devotees of these cults frequently massage tumors in order to drive the lump away. In this they are often too successful. Patients now come into our hospitals with extraordinary distribution of tumor cells following such massage and manipulation. The victims are practically all of them beyond help, owing to the extensive distribution about the body of the embolic particles."-Francis Carter Wood of Manhattan...
...Significance. It remained for a Frenchman, a world-wide knockabout himself, to resurrect this California Midas whom our swarming old-Americana hunters have overlooked. Perhaps Sutter was put from memory for conscience's sake, but now he is back, a mighty, marvelous, golden ghost. Author Cendrars's rushing historical present is a handsome medium for the sweep of such fortunes and fates. If he has anywhere exaggerated, which seems inevitable, who cares...
...Predicts Wide Tutorial Growth...
...stay as long as anyone. Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor, cheered me up by a bit of smart rhetoric. 'Gladstone,' he said, 'ran the British Parliament when he was past 80; Von Moltke ran the German army when past 80, Pope Leo ran the world-wide Catholic Church...