Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Babson's versatility and wide knowledge is shown by the "Future Series," of which he is the author. In these books he deals with the future of the working classes, the method of investing money, churches, railroads, nations, world peace, and South America. His fame as a lecturer and writer on business questions is widespread...
...Chamberlain: "It was the desire of His Majesty's Government to get into conference with the Governments of India and the Dominions. That was not found possible. I will make bold to say that it is totally impracticable to treat matters of this great consequence, covering so wide a range, by despatch or cable across thousands of miles of ocean. . . . The Dominions and India have been left free to take their own action. . . . The whole matter will be brought up at the next Empire Conference...
Cell-immortality is not a new demonstration. It has already been demonstrated that one-celled animals can live indefinitely. But from single-celled animals there is a wide gap. Dr. Carrel's chickenheart-tissue is not a chicken. It is in effect a group of single cells living individually in an ideal environment without mutual interdependence. The real importance of the experiment is that it may furnish important information on the processes of tissue growth...
...present Mr. Eaton is engaged in a country-wide crusade against stage slang such as appears in "The Butter and Egg Man," "Is Zat So?," and other New York successes. His contention is that plays using such slang, though sometimes really worth while, will never live, simply because in a few years, these slang phrases will have changed, and will be entirely unintelligible to the theatre audiences ten years hence...
...want to be sure that membership in the Court cannot be used either (a) to bring this country before the bar of the World Court in the settlement of a question that we do not care to submit to it, or (b) to marshal world-wide public opinion against us in case we have refused to submit a moot question to the Court...