Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile Premier Baldwin attempted to mediate between representatives of the coal miners and operators, to whom the Government granted a subsidy (TIME, Aug. 10) in order to avert a nation-wide strike. Since the subsidy expires May 1, 1926, and since neither miners nor operators have shown themselves willing to abide by the plan of settlement recommended by the Royal Coal Commission (TIME, March 22), the threat of industrial strife swirled darkly over England last week...
...some wrapped in pink, purple and blue shrouds of soft texture, with turquoise, stone and shell ornaments littered near. In the Mountain of the Mother of Salt, a sand-strewn salt-hill several hundred feet high twelve miles from Pueblo Grande, a cave 140 feet deep and 50 wide sparkled brilliantly under the explorers' flashlights. They found stone hammers with the wooden handles preserved, bits of sandals, creosote-brush torches, even thousands of corncobs remaining from meals eaten by the prehistoric salt-miners, and hundreds of quids of a gummy plant chewed between meals. The explorers hoped to find...
...intern's ideal is to learn from the esteemed members of his staff how to diagnose and treat most accurately. The professional attitude towards patients, gleaned from frequent contacts is also invaluable. Some hospitals require rotating services, whereby the intern has. opportunity to deal with a wide variety of ailments. Other hospitals emphasize various services whereby the intern becomes a specialist of sorts and, except for the unusual man, remains somewhat fuzzy concerning the other services. Most medical school faculties recommend the rotating service for the recent graduate. The specialized service is considered advantageous for the matured or postgraduate student...
...close-packed for adequate retelling. It is set down with a force, sweep and wine-laden atmosphere quite its own. On these first credentials alone the author passes for as formidable and welcome a newcomer among U.S. novelists as has arrived in many a day? a writer with the wide stance of the old school, the bold tongue of the new, and the deep, unfaltering insight which is taught in no school but is the birthright of big human historians...
...difficulty. Not all have a quiet country house easily distinguishable to its many visitors by flocks of wild birds that refuse to leave the vicinity, blow, hail and snow as it may Not all, living in a dark world the size of a haycock, have led thousand into the wide light world of all-outdoors...