Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...permission for the erection of a memorial tablet to George Gordon Lord Byron, English poet, was refused by Bishop Ryle, Dean of Westminster. Wrote the Bishop to the London Times: "Byron, partly by his own openly dissolute life and partly by the influence of licentious verse, earned a world-wide reputation for immorality. Among English-speaking people, Westminster Abbey primarily stands to witness for Jesus Christ...
...literally, it did not occur that he might quit. These years of work, these endless efforts, promises, pledges, payments, worries, what not-all had been endured. It was ridiculous to suppose that he would quit. He had only to hang on. Across the whole country he had cut a wide swath of victory. In time, he would mow the rest...
...cause and cure of encephalitis are still unknown. There are no known preventive measures to be taken. It first attracted wide attention when it appeared in Europe and North America in the wake of the epidemic of influenza in 1917-18, and it has been noticeable in England only for the last five years. Its history, however, is longer, for a few isolated cases were recorded in Central Europe in 1712, and it followed, also, the influenza outbreak...
Engaged. Theodore M. Edison, of West Orange, N. J., son of Thomas A. Edison, famed inventor, to Miss Anna Maria Osterhout, of Cambridge, Mass. Her father, a Professor in the Botany Department of Harvard, precipitated wide discussions in 1918 by averring that food could be obtained from sunlight, air, water...
...first two events completed were the 10,000-metre run and the javelin-throw. Rushing over a muddy track, Willie Ritola took the former for Finland so fast (30 min. 23 sec.) that he smashed his own world's record. Wide, of Sweden, his arms high, wild, awkward, was 200 yds. behind. Jonnie Myyra of Finland hurled his javelin 207 ft., leaving Swedish hurlers second and sixth, Americans third and fifth...