Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...although Liuscott may be switched from centerfield to the box. Goodwin, at short stop, was largely responsible for four of the Exeter tallies against Cushing on Wednesday, when he poled a two-bagger with the bases loaded, and made it good for the circuit when the Cushing fielder heaved wide to the plate. His fielding was the feature of the game with the seconds...
...officer in charge of the Citizens' Military Training Camp Affairs for the New England states, may I take the liberty of correcting through your columns, an erroneous impression that has gained wide circulation through the colleges of New England to the effect that the camps are for "boys". We have found college men glad to take advantage of the camp and training when the proposition is explained to them accurately. At Williams College, for example, where a faculty member is aiding us in a proper presentation of the matter, we already have a good enrollment for this summer's camp...
...physchology in America almost singlehanded out of the miasma of metaphysics into the clear white light of experimental rationalism. Pupil of Wilhelm Wundt, he caught the physiological genius of that great founder, and built his theory strictly on the neurological basis of the human body. Hall's wide-ranging, liberal and incisive intelligence took him into many special fields. It made him the dean of the genetic psychologists, with a sympathetic and encyclopedic knowledge of infancy and adolescence (the subject of his greatest work). It distinguished him in the comparative psychology of animals. He was the first American psychologist...
...shaped form with the bigger end at the top; round the gas bag is the load ring from which are suspended a series of cables holding the basket; the basket much resembles a housewife's market basket- only much bigger, some 3% feet high, 3 feet wide and 3% feet long. In the basket are ballast, instruments, warm clothing, food, water, coffee, sterno. The balloonists are comfortable, though slightly cramped for long flights...
Died. Mrs. Pearl Gardner, 38, "biggest woman in the world"; at Tulsa. She weighed 700 pounds, measured 38J/2 inches from shoulder to shoulder. A special coffin, two feet longer than it was wide, was constructed...