Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Britain, the duties of the Attorney General's office are not unlike those of the corresponding office in the U. S. The Attorney General represents the Crown (meaning Government, in its widest sense) in all legal questions, advises the government departments when called upon. In addition, he has wide control in matters relating to criminal prosecutions...
With the needs of the Fine Arts Department more than met by the recent generosity of alumni and others, a rumor is in circulation that the Fogg Art Museum is to be torn down on grounds of future uselessness. In spite of the wide difference of opinion which exists on the architectural merits of the building, it is hard to believe, when space for special facilities is at a premium, that such an idea can be seriously entertained...
...sure those headquarters will cost the Democrats many votes. The great empty anteroom, about 75 ft. long by 25 ft. wide, with only one lone boy at the entrance, one telephone operator and never more than one visitor waiting on a sofa, has the same moral effect as staging a mass meeting of six persons in Madison Square Garden...
With the fliers out of sight, the crowd watched the west. The broadcaster droned: "Here comes Mills." Then: "Here comes Skeel. Note his speed." Down from a great height swooped the plane, catapulting toward the starting line in a wide arc. Then tragedy. The machine was seen to disintegrate, like a cardboard toy. A wing broke completely away, fluttered down. The crippled fuselage spun, dove precipitately behind a row of trees. Flying sticks and clods of earth, visible to the crowd a mile and a half away, told of Skeel's instant death-the first fatality in all five...
...directed its most earnest attention to politics and to economic problems which have been involved in politics. Its keynotes were an out-and-out defense of the existing capitalistic system and a counterattack on its political foes all along the line. Both addresses and resolutions thus included an unusually wide range of topics: demagogs were attacked, the railroads defended; both the direct primary and the Child Labor Law were condemned; public ownership was assailed; a plea for foreign investments was made; the farmer was told to avoid Government paternalism and to organize cooperative marketing systems; the Federal Reserve Bank...