Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current Scribner's how, having made a chaffling reference to the low estate of learning in college, he was rebuked by a student who said that the earnest student is honored and respected in spite of all the current jokes. There is, in fact, something like a Nation-wide revolt among thinking students against the evils of which the professors complain. It is the graduates now who are mainly responsible for the hysteria over sports, and the evils that follow in its train. Upon the campus itself there is a decided reaction toward sanity and practical reforms. --New York World...
...nation-wide poll on the prohibition question is being conducted among the various colleges and universities of the United States by the National Student Federation of America, the results of which are expected to furnish one of the main topics of discussion at the Federation Conference to be held next December at Ann Arbor, Michigan. Although no political results of the discussion are contemplated, it is felt that the investigation will be of value in summarizing and crystalizing undergraduate opinion...
...services to the science of medicine have won a wide recognition, honorary orders having been conferred upon him by the leading societies of four nations. Among the decorations he has received is the Cross of the French Legion of Honor...
...archeologist, gathered scattered bones, bits of pottery and building stone; dug six yards down and found the red porphyry walls and courtyards of a city of unknown extent dating to 1000 B. C. Burial caverns, scooped into solid rock like the interior of flat-bottomed water-bottles with yard wide necks, contained groups of mummies sitting in circles, the chiefs holding carved wooden staffs. Headbands and other trinkets of gold; primitive pottery and "magnificent" textile remains, approximated the lost Tiahuanaco culture of the Bolivian highlands. The Paracas city was named Cerro Colorado. Not many miles away is the ancient Cabeza...
...suits and No Trump-40; five suit honors divided 2 and 3-50; four suit honors in one hand-80; five suit honors divided 4 and 1-90; all honors in one hand-100. One or two honors held by a side are not counted. (Brand new, but in wide vogue before the new code was officially published...