Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...violent attacks which have been launched against you because of your endeavor to range every available force on the side of prohibition are, in my opinion, wide of the mark, and are based either on hostility to law enforcement, or on ignorance of the precedents which support your action." It was signed by Gifford Pinchot. It referred to the President's executive order permitting state constables to be sworn in as Federal prohibition enforcement agents...
...James approached from the side. The 20 ushers were, followed by four bridesmaids?all school friends of Ailsa Mellon's at Farmington, Conn.?and Miss Craigie McKay, the maid of honor. The female attendants wore orchid chiffon swinging a full 18 inches from the ground in front and wide brimmed hats. The costumes were extremely simple, that of the maid of honor being distinguished by a slightly darker hue. Their bouquets were of larkspur, butterfly roses and purple orchids...
...That agriculture needs the aid which the Government alone can give is agreed upon everywhere and by every person. . . . There may be?indeed, there is?wide difference of opinion with respect to the measures that ought to be employed...
With R. McK Henry '24, captain elect of the 1924 crew, this committee turned toward the West for a coach after the type of the men who had brought the Washington eights into such prominence at the Poughkeepsie regatta. After a wide search, Stevens was finally selected. Although he did not have any previous coaching experience, Mr. Stevens rowed in the Cornell varsity shell to two years in 1908 and 1909 and had achieved considerable reputation as a single sculler
There are, no doubt, further conclusions to be drawn from the answers to the questionnaire, but many of them rank-among the sentiments that have not yet crystallized. It is for the country-wide college public to make all it can of the publicity which reveals it coping with similar problems and cooperating more through contagion than contact...