Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lexington, Va., the doors of Washington and Lee University swung wide for the 175th time. In the absence of President Henry Louis Smith, still convalescent from motor injuries suffered in July, Dean Campbell delivered words of welcome and advice in the Robert E. Lee chapel...
...their independent and smaller competitors, owing to their employing fleets of trucks for making rapid deliveries. Large-scale baking also makes possible many economies of operation in labor and material costs. How far mergers in the breadmaking field may go, no one can say. The field is apparently wide open. In another decade we may have a "Bread Trust" for fearless politicians to attack in election years...
...nation-wide menace, this Klan. It knows no party. It knows no country. It knows bigotry, malice and terror. Our national Government is founded on reason and the Golden Rule. This Klan is preaching and practicing terror and force. Its only prototype is the Soviet of Russia. So I feel that I am walking the path of duty in going into this race...
...more conscious of our good fortune, more grateful for it, and more disposed to earn it. Professor Baker has been disinterestedly devoted to the University, and after many years of untiring and creative labor has organized a method of teaching and research in dramatic art that is widely recognized as one of the University's most distinguished achievements. It is now time for a little generosity on the part of the University. Because he has made much of little, he should be given much; because he has proved that his idea can triumph over bodily limitations it deserves a suitable...
...wide appeal to a larger number of persons, the principle of the community chest makes social service finance a relatively simple matter; and by its control of institutions, it assures the public that the money of contributors is neither misdirected nor wasted...