Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred and eighty-eight years Harvard University has served the people of this land. The gifts poured upon her have come back to the nation in enrichment of culture, life, and character. Today Harvard has a remarkable chemical staff, with men of world-wide reputation. She has for her thousand students in chemistry the laboratory of fifty years ago, wasteful, inefficient, dangerous. The greatest gift that can be made to the nation through Harvard is the upbuilding of a great modern laboratory, and the enabling of her teachers to carry further than ever their research...
...altogether too large and too vague to be covered adequately in a debate. There is such a wide divergence of opinion, among scholars or even among socialists themselves, as to the meaning of 'Socialism' that the evening, interesting as it may be, is likely to be wasted as far as results are concerned...
...Wilmington (Del.) Society of Fine Arts is holding a national exhibition in the galleries of Wilmington's new library. This show has been arranged by Fred Wagner and includes many artists of country-wide reputation...
With the comfortable feeling that the World Cruise was sailing safely on its way, newspapers and public began to lose interest in the great adventure. But the feeling of security was false. From Sitka, Alaska, to Seward, Alaska, the 610 miles of coast-wide flight proved highly dangerous. Ideal weather at the start was followed by a blinding snow- storm, and a collision just avoided by the aviators, who were flying "close" to maintain contact...
...first floor is the Auditorium approached by a wide flight of steps. The Auditorium, which is built like an amphitheater, seats approximately one thousand men. The stage has on either side of it small rooms for the professors. The interior of this Auditorium with its domed coiling, will be impressive from its size and proportions, rather than from its richness of detail...