Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vare is credited with knowing most about how votes are got into ballot boxes. Pinchot is conceded to be the hardest fighter. Last week he let out as follows: "I charge that perjury and forgery are now added to ballot-box stuffing, falsification of election returns and the city-wide sticker scandal of the Vare gang of Philadelphia. . . . "The Vare penmen not only forged names but invented persons. Two Vare penmen in the Sixth Division of the 32nd ward turned out a full sheet of forgeries. One wrote 29 signatures and the other 15 all copied from the street list...
Sensation. A significant despatch last week indicated that Gregory Zinoviev, "spiritual son of Lenin," has been re-elected chairman of the Third International, or world-wide Communist bureau for propaganda, terror and general subversion...
...ship Karluk in 1913; flew another hour, whizzing 70 miles into a frozen desert never before penetrated by man. When they circled back they had seen no land, but from their lofty lookout they had explored by eye a swath of the unknown perhaps 60 miles wide and 100 long ? 6,000 square miles of "new world." Returning, they had flown far inland before being able to identify land beneath them through the snow. Gauging their position by the shore line, they found Barrow and landed with the snow drifting waisthigh. Blizzards and fog had kept them there...
...Storr-Best is a man of wide education. A graduate of the University of London, he has studied at Cambridge, Rome, Florence, for a short time at the University of Moscow, and for three years at the Sorbonne...
...both broadening and broad. There are in the Department no less than 17 separate fields varying from Ancient History and the History of the Renaissance and the Reformation, to History of International Relations since 1500, and the History of Intellectual and Religious liberty. In the range of these a wide variety of related courses is accepted for concentration so that the department is adapted to men of greatly differing tastes. In this connection it is pertinent to scotch the myth that is every man's inheritance from secondary school that American history is a sterile and desolate waste. The usual...