Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rise from total obscurity to the foremost place in the boxing world has given to boxing a tremendous impetus in South America. I look to see several representatives from the southern hemisphere come to the United States in the near future, and while they may not occasion the world-wide interest which came to Firpo they will make apparent that in the future their countries must be considered as providing formidable antagonists which may, in time, even threaten the undoubted supremacy of the United Stated in this sport...
...same time it is possible that Mr. Brown, in his enthusiasm, has stressed his cause too far. The wide spread tendency to take up utilitarian courses, particularly in the state universities, may also be an explanation for the present scarcity of men in the field of letters. It requires an active imagination to believe that the presence of women in classrooms is wholly responsible for a condition that seems symptomatic of some deeper, more fundamental cause. And even if there is no other immediately apparent reason, it is somewhat unkind of Mr. Brown to shed tears over the degeneracy...
...Todd's drive in the seventh inning of the Middlebury game a home run or a single? There was a wide difference of opinion in yesterday's sporting columns. The Herald and the Globe called it a home run, giving the Sophomore center-fielder two circuit clouts for the game and four for the season. The Post and the Advertiser ruled it a single, charging the Middlebury center fielder with an error in letting the ball go through him. The CRIMSON, using the official score kept by the Harvard management, took the second stand...
...accordance with their ability to pay. So we fix a rate of maximum productivity and minimum disturbance. It is really an issue of honest taxation against dishonest taxation. Our opponents play up a lot to the poor and downcast and against the rich, but they really leave the door wide open to let the rich man through. Our plan of taxation is not so much a question of who pays the taxes or whether business will be disturbed, but one of whether it is a plan that can be carried...
...view of the wide discrepancy in the circulation figures of such representative papers as the Boston Transcript and the New York Daily News, a novel statement of this sort suggests either a lack of powers of observation, or a Pollynna-like optimism. The most superficial analysis should convince Mr. Bellamy that the real reason for the present passionate interest in affairs of government and polities is that just now they are even more spicy and sensational than the latest returns on who killed whom in Westchester Country. As soon as conditions again approach the normal the favorites of former months...