Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public expenditures. "The country as a whole is demanding with great vigor every possible relief from the burden of every unnecessary public expenditure. Yet notwithstanding this, minority groups of one kind or another, and organizations, some-times almost nation-wide in their ramifications, are making the most determined assaults upon the public treasury. I am advised by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget that careful computation discloses that there are bills pending . . not including the bonus, which would increase the expenditures of the Federal Government for next year by about...
Plans Nation-Wide Flght...
...mind must be singularly inept which fails to solve the intricacies of the average card index system after a few moments of thought. And the fact that several cities report that their libraries are crowded with school children to the exclusion of adults would seem to indicate a reasonably wide familiarity with books and their eccentricities...
...these years? It is a great comfort to feel that at last we are back on sure and familiar ground, wrangling and shouting over the good old stock subjects--socialism and pacifism. Now the advanced thinkers of the class are deminding that the floor of the Union be made wide open to all comers and no holds barred. Well, why not? All the other fields have been exhausted to the point that even the Debating Union cannot survive on the stubble...
Referring to the great Bolshevik playwright, a critic contended that the author explains in the preface the intended inner revolutionary meanings of the play. But how wide is the gulf between Lunacharsky, as a prefacial explainer, and Lunacharsky as a dramatist. The play is based on sex and mysticism-religious mysticism at that...