Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prepared to face the difficulties. But they start with the first ingredient of successful organization--a sound ideal. There can be no dispute about that. We next come to leadership, a very important factor in any case, but of vital consequence in a movement designed to become world-wide. And in this connection I would appeal with all the earnestness at my command to youth to see that it is worthily repre- sented in so great a cause. Here is a fine ambition for the young man of parts who desires to serve his fellow-creatures. As I asked...
...impossible as a matter of pure organization to start a movement simultaneously through a nation of 110 million souls flung over a continent 3000 miles wide. The seeds of the movement have been blown by fate to New England and are taking root in Boston...
...other (i. e. the American and English nations) is beyond all belief." Strong, unqualified words coming from a man in the best position to form a sound judgment. Not one man in 1000 of either nation knows anything worth while about the other nation. This fundamental and wide-spread ignorance is the reason why the politicians and diplomatists have failed. How can 200 millions of people sprayed over half the face of the earth separated by thousands of miles co-operate intelligently if they know nothing about each other? The answer is that they cannot. The one real live bond...
...Manhattan, the annual convention of the National Association of Manufacturers "resoluted" on an unusually wide variety of topics. Its "Platform of American Industry, 1924" advocated freedom for individual initiative and a halt in governmental control of business; deplored "dishonesty in high places"; defended the Supreme Court; condemned unnecessary taxation; favored the compilation and distribution of current trade information; declared tor complete freedom in making and maintaining voluntary employment agreements, without respect to compulsory membership or nonmembership in any organization; urged fair treatment for the railways and continuance of the Transportation Act; stood for the admission of immigrants economically needed, subject...
...biggest shadow in the world? 235,000 miles high, 105 miles wide, and 75 miles thick at its densest part?fell across San Diego today, the shadow of the moon as it crossed the face...