Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That evening, the League for the Protection of the Rights of Man gave a monster "banquet of welcome" to Joseph Caillaux,* whose financial genius has, in years past, won nation-wide repute. Two thousand radical and socialist persons were present. Premier Herriot did not attend but, said M. Paul Painlevé, Président de la Chambre, "he is here in spirit." Presently there entered Maitre Moro-Giafferi, the famed French lawyer who defended Caillaux before the Senate when he was condemned to exile for endangering the alliances of France in 1919. He whooped a cry of delight at seeing...
...mystery, the slow roots thrusting through the dark of the mind to flower in beauty?she reveals with psychology for her spade. By this method, she puts the whole of Endymion through psychological reconstruction; explains why the Ode to a Grecian Urn is a "flawless example of clear, unvexed, wide-eyed beauty"; the Ode to a Nightingale "a no less perfect presentation of absolute magic"; why "Keats' whole soul was in The Eve of St. Agnes"; Hyperion she scores as "a failure"; praises the little-famed Meg Merrilies...
After that he tried to come back, failed, settled down to the life of a gentleman and memories. His gentility has become recognized far and wide, his memories have taken shape in his mind, he has written* a book†. Like John Keats, he was a livery-stable keeper's son. His father intended him for the priesthood, but he crossed himself and went out to lick the boys. His first fight was with Joe Choinyski, whom he calls "one of the gamest and best fighters that ever lived"-a slugging match on a raft in San Francisco...
This steady and very great expansion has resulted from manufacturing and selling efficiency and world-wide advertising, rather than from patent protection. One advantage in this business is that every owner of a Gillette razor becomes a steady customer for Gillette blades...
...Jones of the Medical Corps the complete purpose of the War Department in taking this action was revealed. Major Jones explained that these appointments are the direct result of an elaborate industrial policy which has been undertaken by Secretary of War Weeks. This policy consists of a nation-wide census of all industries with a view to ascertaining their maximum efficiency. All raw materials and products used by these industries are traced to their source and the limit of supply calculated. By this means, in case of another war, the government in appropriating certain industries will be assured...