Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bryan carefully placed a chair for his expected visitor and left wide open the door of the executive office, a large hideous chamber, papered green and with a metallic ceiling embossed with a design of palm leaves, cornucopias and parallelograms. The Governor's mahogany conference table is so placed that he sits in a swivel chair in a sort of a stall formed by his rolltop desk, a small table and the large one. He placed the chair, in which he intended Gen. Dawes to sit, at the open end of this space. Then the General entered...
...conclusions from this work are that wide variations in the rate of passage of food through the body are perfectly compatible with good health. All of the persons tested seemed to be normal on examination; and none of them admitted having poor digestion or poor health. Nevertheless, the rate of the movement of food varied greatly from very slow to very fast in the group of persons studied. The studies seemed to show also that the giving of purgative drugs, or that spontaneous, repeated emptying of the bowels results in such thorough emptying that no further excretions should be expected...
...with a large chemical industry is in the position of being superlatively armed. The use of airplanes will make possible the spreading of these gases in industrial centres and among the civil population, with a terribly fatal effect. It will be practically impossible to provide protection on a nation-wide scale against some of these gases...
...eminences of the foothills of the Cordilleran mountain chain rose out of the waters as islands. While the waters were rising, the animal life of the tropical valley took refuge on the higher ground on the shores and islands. On the latter this life is now isolated. Naturally, a wide variety of life is collected on some of these small islands...
Trade, now in the depths of Summer slack, faces a double speculation as to the Fall. Seasonal recovery is of course to be expected, but how far it will go remains an enigma. The basic soundness of economic conditions is undoubted and is creating wide optimism as to the future. But merchants and manufacturers would like to see something more than rosy prospects, and soon they will become impatient unless definitely auspicious signs develop, however faintly...