Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short stop, while the University third sacker was scoring. Lord singled and Sullivan tripled on a long high wallop over the center fielders head. Scoring Todd and Lord ahead of him. The Crimson short stop crossed the plate on the same play when the throw to third went wide...
...numerous petty states officially united as "the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes." Unmentioned in either title are Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Dalmatia, Voyvodina, Medjumurje, the Island of Krk and the Community of Kastav, which are all included in this little Adriatic state roughly 500 miles long by 209 wide...
Admiral Fiske experimented with Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad, a work of 93,000 words. He had it printed to be read in his reading machine. In its reduced shape, it was a 13-page pamphlet, 3½ inches wide, 5½ inches long. How big will an encyclopedia be when shrunk for the Fiskoscope? No bigger than an ordinary novel. The Oxford Dictionary? A trifling brochure. The works of Balzac, of James Fenimore Cooper, of Thackeray, Scott, James Joyce? Slender dockets. Dr. Eliot's five-foot shelf will melt to the thickness of a few packs of cards and those advertisement...
...titles of some of the other songs suggest the wide scope of the play. A few of these are "There are Lots of Things You Never Learn in College," "Bed o' Roses" and "We Modern Girls...
...cast of the show takes in students who are noted n college for wide diversity of activities. A great deal of the music has been contributed by Thayer Cummings '26, captain of the 1926 hockey team: Joseph Alner former Ivy Orater, and j. O. Whelon '27, have contributed many of the lyrics: one of the members of George Washington's staff is C. D. Coady '27, captain-elect of the football team: S. F. Daley '27, star guard on the football team for two years, is the villain; and C. S. Gross '27, one of the forwards on the hockey...