Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...going to follow in a moment, bolted from the Chamber. Those who did not immediately flee, were assaulted by the Fascist deputies, as soon as they finished voting. Many a lock of hair was literally torn from Aventine heads. Many a Fascist boot literally propelled Aventines through the wide portals of the Chamber and down the stairs...
...Copley Square opposite the Public Library, a group of silent men and women-folk who had just darted warily across Boylston Street, who seemed to greet one another with ingenuous, unmasked pleasure, but who spoke no words. The attentive noted that these silent folk looked at each other with wide, quick-moving eyes which certainly observed everything, especially the queerly gesticulating fingers of their fellows, fingers that seemed to fly in fluid curves, hooks and angles, fingers that flipped with exact intention. Then the realization came that these deaf persons had come to Trinity Church to attend the ordination...
...Argentine, which, in its physical qualities, is very like our Western claims and which are developed about as our great West was forty or fifty years ago. She has the same general make-up as the United States. She has large cities on her eastern coast, and wide plains stretching to the west which are excellent for cattle raising purposes. She is now rapidly increasing her exports, and is especially thriving in the raising of cattle. This year she will export 1,000,000 tons of wheat...
With the building of huge football stadia and the higher organization of all college athletics, football and basketball may well have superseded baseball in popular favor purely through being more spectacular. The movement to engage all schoolboys and college men in some form of athletics, the wide publicity given to the Olympic Games of 1920 and 1924 (after the hiatus 1912-1920) and to Paavo ("Flying Finn") Nurmi when he visited the U. S. after those Games, may well have been factors making track and field sports momentarily more popular than baseball. The crowded condition of many city playgrounds...
Just 100 years ago a babe with an enormous head and wide, staring eyes was born at the Chateau de Blowitz, near Pilsen, Bohemia. Half a century later one Henri Stephan de Blowitz, jack of all trades, paunchy ne'er-do-well, sought the Paris office of the famed London Times and audaciously asked for a job, although he admitted that he had never written a line of news in all his wastrel life...