Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover, as honorary chairman, sent Secretary of War James William Good to represent him, to make a speech. The Good speech did not fully uphold Ripon's claim to Republican primacy. Said he: "The party . . . came up, literally, out of the ground, everywhere, in response to a country-wide demand from the people. Events, not men, called it into being...
...large proportion of Freshmen in these courses and the wide range of subject matter covered by them make comparatively frequent check-ups in the form of tests advisable. But this fact does not answer the question as to how heavily these periodic tests should count toward the final grade. The arguments in favor of laying great stress on the weekly or monthly marks constitute in reality an indictment of examinations as an accurate test of knowledge. The good student may have an off day mentally or physically or may be so afflicted with examination nervousness as to fall far short...
...selection of D. W. McCord as Graduate Secretary speaks for itself. Occupying at various times many positions of trust in Harvard affairs, he has particularly distinguished himself in his able work as Executive Secretary of the Harvard Fund. Mr. McCord's wide experience and broad personal contacts should be especially valuable in the selection of prominent speakers, in the outside relations of the Union, and in the general oversight of its policy...
...Duke rose early on his birthday beautiful morning, church went of St. Philip Neri (built the by his Solemn father in 1873), and there attended solomn High Mass, heard and the there monks from Storrington intone a sonorous Te Deum. Followed, in the afternoon, a solemn procession through the wide castle grounds, and benediction services under the castle trees, with monks and nuns from neighboring convents...
...Hooker entrusted last week's performance and his secrets to John Mullholland of Manhattan, brilliant sleight-of-handman, lecturer, student of world-wide magical history. Magician Mullholland was invisibly assisted by Dr. Shirley L. Quimby, apparatus expert, professor of physics at Columbia University. Dr. Hooker's guests were led from his dark panelled home through a small grassy courtyard, into a private chemical laboratory. On the second floor was a tiny impromptu "theatre" which seated about 20 people. The walls were lined with books, many of them on magic...