Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Plea for the Emancipation of Our Culture from Well-Meaning Commercialism" is Mr. John Jay Chapman's latest contribution to the body of literature aimed at the conduct of American Universities. Although his charges are by no means novel, they have gained wide publicity through the action of Messrs. Bates and Blanchard in filing a petition with the Massachusetts Legislature for an investigation of the state of affairs at Harvard...
...architecture developed together like concentric cortices of a springing rod. Architecture is the outer whorl; its fashions make their impress on clothes, the inner. Tailors snip and snip, masons slap on their lime; steeples and toppers affront the sky, eaves overhang, tails droop decorously down. Ingeniously, out of a wide scholarship, Author Heard traces the homologous development of caps and cathedrals, mitres and mosques-15,000 years in a book of 150 pages that scholars will find an interesting tour-de-force, men of letters a most scholarly little tract. And the end? Clothes, like the appendix, are a useless...
...Whiting is the author of "Whiting's Column", which appears daily in the Boston Herald, and a close student of politics in all its phases. In addition he has written several books on President Coolidge which have attracted wide attention...
...University authorities are entirely in accord with the new project which will in no way effect the site of Memorial Hall. The cut-off itself will be about 50 or 60 feet wide and is expected to cost about...
...divorce on the grounds of adultery, cruelty and conviction for an infamous crime punishable by imprisonment. (The inclusion of cruelty as a ground for divorce is an echo of Napoleon's troubles with Josephine.) The interpretation by the French courts of what constitutes cruelty is what has opened wide the door to marital freedom. It includes insults such as the failure to resume or continue marital relations...