Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only equipment needed for the game, in addition to a football, is a pair of regulation goal posts with broad strips of canvas stretched between them. This canvas is about a yard wide and the bottom of it is slightly more than six feet above the ground. In it are three holes 18 inches in diameter...
...Wide Range Offered for Discussion...
That "Venus and Adonis" is an essay, written by Darwin on his theory of evolution, was one of the enlightening bits of information revealed in a recent Intelligence test given to members of sections in English A. The results of the test show a wide range of opinions in the Freshman class, together with the great American tendency to take a chance. Unique ideas were produced in almost every case where a difficult question was asked...
...archaeologist, when he is fulfilling his highest function, is engaged in historical research and for that purpose needs a wide knowledge not only of the sciences that man has acquired, but of human psychology so that he may understand man as well as things...
That a man whose experience in world affairs has been as wide as Clemenceau's should deliberately decide not to mention in his volumes the political events in which he figured seems unfair. What ever abstract conclusions he may set down, the breath of life goes out of them when they are not definitely connected with human events. Men study the writings of great figures in history chiefly to gain the man's opinion of the events in which he figured, not to be regaled by philosophical abstractions. When a man passes eighty years, as M. Clemenceau has, the fruit...