Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yard wide, weighing eight pounds, containing a steel comb which is picked by minute pincers when notes are struck on the keyboard above-such is the Pichetone-instrument which Inventor S. Giley of Moscow declares will supplant the piano. Russian musicians assert that it has a tone superior to that of the ordinary pianoforte...
...Williamstown, Mass., in the Berkshire Hills, there assembled last week the world-wide host of experts, theorists and empiricists that made up the fifth session of the Williamstown Institute of Politics...
...universal opinion of the German note was that it marked the beginning of a new spirit of peace and goodwill in Europe and left the door wide open to a frank discussion of the issues involved in a parley to be called probably in August...
...Agate lines," in which advertisements are measured. Each "agate line" is a space a column wide and deep enough to accommodate a line of type very slightly smaller than the type in which this footnote is printed...
...blizzards, "monstrous ice-cliffs and blocks of fantastic shapes with overhanging masses." Scaling one peak only to find one 600 ft. higher looming beside them, they toiled 1,000 feet down, then hacked footholds up to the true peak. They stood for an hour on a ledge, a yard wide, looking off over a billowing sea of clouds punctured by glacier-streaming peaks. They saw their own shadows moving in a rainbow 19,800* ft. above the sea-floors of the world...