Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With Syracuse, Johns Hopkins, and Williams cutting into the points in the sprints, Penn State and Boston College are sure to make their presence felt in the middle distance runs, with Holy Cross furnishing a likely quarter-mile champion, and a wide, scattering of points in prospect in the distance runs. It again becomes apparent that the battle for the title should be fought out once more in the field, and it is the closeness of the fight that causes the Harvard followers to believe that Allen, Waters, Tibbetts, Hyatt, Fetcher, Eastman, and the redoubtable Carpenter, will annex just enough...
...passage by the Argentine Congress of a law, forcing employers and employers to contribute 5% of salaries paid and received to a general pension fund, started a nation-wide strike...
...guests at the Bankers' Club indicated the nation-wide and authoritative support this effort will receive. They included: Dr. Ernest M. Hopkins, President of Dartmouth; Ray Stannard Baker; Herbert S. Houston, editor of Our World; General Tasker H. Bliss; Dr. William H. Welch of Johns Hopkins; Governor A. C. Ritchie of Maryland; T. I. Parkinson, Acting Dean of Columbia; Dr. Alexander Smith, representing Dr. John Grier Hibben, President of Princeton; John G. Agar, George Barr Baker and Edgar Rickard of the Commission for Relief in Belgium Educational Foundation; Van Lear Black; Robert S. Brookings, President of the Institute of Economics...
...nothing is impossible, and with this high reward and world wide fame to be gained, inventors may yet find an ingenious solution...
While considerable secrecy at present attaches to all helicopter experiments, there is no doubt that the American Berliners are at least as far advanced in the art as any of their competitors. Mr. Berliner has previously won wide recognition by his inventions on the telephone transmitter and the gramophone and his great ingenuity is balanced by the mathematical ability...