Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reported the results. These investigations covered representative cities ranging in population from 2,000 to over 5,000,000. It was found that in all cases of employes of similar character the average salaries paid were much lower than those paid in the postal service. . . . There is a wide difference in the cost of living in the larger cities and industrial centres as compared with the smaller cities and towns...
...vessel is the "Nereus", a steel schooner, square-rigged. It is 242 feet in length, 39 feet wide, with a depth of 23 feet. She has a gross tonnage of over 8,000 tons, and her masts, which are steel, shoot up 150 feet above the deck...
...grace." His hair is gray and always closely cropped. The fine lines of his mouth are quasi-concealed by his prominent mustache. His eyes are piercing but kindly. He received a Spartan education, a fact which is mainly responsible for his unhesitating strength of mind and the wide range and accuracy of his information. "Teddy" Roosevelt ranked him high in the family of Kings...
...address of 1912 would never have been suitable for 1914, nor would that of 1914 apply at all to the state of affairs in 1918. Today is unlike any previous period, not only in time but in evolution of ideas. Seldom have radical opinions upon any subject received so wide favor nor have they often come simultaneously from such heights of authority...
Needless to say, lie is sending to Philadelphia a crew which will almost surely win, since it has beaten all its rivals heretofore by wide margins. The Yale eight will do an enormous amount of hustling to make the shift from Red Top to Philadelphia and back to Red Top again...