Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...States of Europe descended from the mountains of animosity from which they have long been accustomed to glare at one another, went down the rugged mountain paths of doubt, crossed the bog of misgivings and set foot on the great, wide road that leads to a true economic resettlement of the War-torn Continent...
Walter F. White is a slight, light-haired, blue-eyed, soft-voiced young man, clever, wide-awake, efficient. He writes with skill and force. He has just published his first novel, The Fire in the Flint.* It is a story of the oppression of the Negro race in the South, a story of melodramatic intensity and some bitterness. Walter White knows whereof he writes. He is a Negro. He was graduated from Atlanta University in 1916 and has done graduate work in Economics and Sociology at the College of the City of New York. For a time...
...introduction of vegetable oils, however, turned the tide abroad. Yet the product failed of wide acceptance until the War, when butter was rationed in England. Many who had to eat margarine or nothing, ended by liking it as well as butter...
...English Channel, the most widely advertised and popular of natatorial obstacles, is 22.5 miles wide where swimmers attempt it-Dover to Calais or vice versa-and a swimmer's course is often 56 miles long through the shifting tides. It has been traversed several times, most recently and fastest (16 hr. 33 min.) by Enrique Tirabocchi, Argentine porpoise-man. Channel water, however, is warmer than the Firth of Forth. (TIME, Aug. 20, 1923). The Hellespont, between Gallipoli Peninsula and Asia Minor-famed in fable for being negotiated by Leander, amorous Greek, and in romance because Lord Byron...
Detroiters sat on the cool verandas of their Yacht Club, trained their glasses on a line of snorting speed boats that came plunging down the Detroit River, swept around a wide turn and plunged back upstream on the other leg of an oval course. Toward evening it was announced that Rainbow IV, owned and driven by Harry B. Greening, of Hamilton, Ont., had the best times for three 30-mile heats. Greening was not presented with the American Power Boat Association's Gold Challenge Cup, for which he had raced. A rival pilot protested that Rainbow IV was constructed...