Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Republican Record in 1924. "We have ratified separate treaties of world-wide importance with Germany, Austria, Hungary, Colombia and Mexico. Forty-two other treaties have been approved by the Senate and six treaties are now awaiting its action. Friendly intercourse has been resumed with Turkey and Greece. . . . Our foreign relations have been handled with a technical skill and a broad statesmanship which has seldom, if ever, been surpassed...
...have observed with sympathy the continuing difficulties of Europe. . . . The Reparation Commission appointed a committee of experts of which three were Americans, one of whom, Charles G. Dawes, was chosen Chairman. A report has been made which received world-wide approbation and has been accepted in principle by the Governments interested. ... I believe the substance of the plan ought to 'be adopted. . . . If Europe should agree to this proposal, then a private loan should be made by our citizens to Germany for the financial support of this undertaking. ... In my opinion such action, by stabilizing Europe, would result...
...tons of lead to make the joints airtight. The labor of laying them alone is said to have cost $7,500. There is no water nearby nor anybody to use water. What is more, the pipe runs approximately in a rectangle 1,800 ft. long and 1,200 ft. wide, with mirrors in the corners and a double row of pipe on one of the short sides, to provide a check on the accuracy of the work. Pumps are provided to exhaust the air from the pipes...
...will order the National Guard to assemble and do all that is required of them by the military officers, and will appoint State-wide committees to urge patriotic societies to hold patriotic services, as contemplated by the War Department plans...
...Harvard engaged this promising "radical" to direct Hemenway Gymnasium. When he relin- quished the position, 40 years later, he had furnished the country with "chest weights" and other body-building machinery, had brought Harvard's strength-index up 25%, had introduced an "anthropometric" (strength-measuring) formula now in wide use, had supervised the physical education of scores of athletes and hundreds of gymnastic teachers...