Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...market prices. By an ingenious system of pyramiding (the issuance of non-interest bearing, legal tender, industrial notes on property already acquired) the whole of the world's wealth could be acquired for about 20% of its value without cheating anybody. What have we finally? A great world-wide producing corporation. The entire population would live in a few cities. Every bit of land would produce whatever it was best fitted for. Likewise a gigantic civil service would put every man in his proper place. If a few odd hundreds of thousands of acres of land were needed...
Excepting a few good men who are likely to win first places, the Freshmen are sully lacking in the strong second and third place scorers which are so essential for a winning team. The crimson team lost practically all its meets this season by wide margins, losing to Andover, 80 to 45; to Exeter, 76 1-3 to 49 1-2; Huntington School, 35 to 33; and, last week, to Princeton, 86 to 48. Early in the season, the crimson won a combined meet against Boston Latin and English High Schools, although no score was kept...
...These two sets of observations," wrote President Eliot, "one at Mt. Desert and the other at Cambridge, taught me that prohibitory legislation to be effective must be nation-wide, and that only national authority could really prevent both the manufacture and the transportation of intoxicating drinks.... When the results of the medical examinations of the drafted recruits for the American Expeditionary Force were published, with their very disappointing demonstration of the physical incapacity of a large proportion of the recruits, and Congress took measures for the protection of the camps of American troops preparing to go to France against saloons...
...body of Robert Raisbeck Proctor '27, whose disappearance has caused a wide search during the last nine days, was discovered about 5 o'clock yesterday morning by Patrolman Patrick J. O'Neil, of the Metropolitan District Police. Patrolman O'Neil found the body floating at a point in the river just below the Newell boathouse...
Yesterday afternoon on the Divinity Courts, the undefeated second tennis team met the undefeated. Freshmen annul it was the latter team that took the short end of the 5-4 score. The strong wide that blew across the courts made fast tennis out of the question and most the matches deteriorated into pat-ball...