Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having traveled far and wide on the continent, he went, after his Oxford days were over, to explore Central Asia. His visits to Persia, Siam, the Pamirs, Indo-China and Korea were not the fitful visits of a tourist, but the premeditated acts of a scholar who traveled to discover and store a fund of knowledge that books could not give...
Fire broke out and partly destroyed the famed waxwork exhibition in Marylebone Road, London, known far and wide as Madame Tussaud's. Reconstruction is to begin at once...
...Yale there has been inaugurated an Alumni Day during the college term set apart for graduates to come back and find out all that the University is doing, has done, and will do. Yale on that date throws its doors wide to every alumnus, invites him to look through every building on the campus, and by official lectures tells him carefully and honestly just how each department is running and why each innovation is being made. This is assuredly a wise and far-sighted policy. Harvard can well afford to take similar pains to bind together graduates, undergraduates...
...Lowrie heartlessly destroys the long-cherished belief that Europe excels America in wide dissemination of culture, in unrestrained individualism, and in tolerance. Centuries of enforced hallelujahs to a reigning caste have broken down any respect for individual merit, he says, and goes on heretically: "There is no taboo among us, however silly, that cannot be matched by an equally senseless one characteristic of European castes." Lest the minions of enraged ship-owners should rush incontinently upon him, however, Mr. Lowrie hastens to add that he is not discouraging in the least the desire to see the beauties of Europe...
...goals, strips of canvas extending from one goal post to the other, with three holes in each, were under a continual bombardment, but each attempt was either bated down by he goal guardian or went wide of the mark...