Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...overdone as to assume the proportions of sheer imbecility. There is a moron class in every country to which the gruesome and exaggerated details of a murder case provide series of irresistible thrills, calculated to make little gum-chewers swallow their gum in a paroxysm of wide-eyed horror...
...results of a wide-spread movement towards liberalism," Mr. Russell summed up as he prepared to end the interview, "especially in American universities, would be inestimable. I admit, of course, that a reformer who sits at a desk and evolves Utopian theories is, in the final estimate, useless. But once a student has achieved liberty of thought, his next step is to stump the country trying to convert people, and then he becomes a factor in the progress of civilization...
...Eighteenth Century Symphony Orchestra gave its last concert of the season in Jordan Hall last Tuesday evening, playing music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in costume of the period of Louis Quinze. This music makes a wide appeal both to the sophisticated taste that finds in it the charm of simplicity and naive freshness and to the uninitiate who seek only for beauty of melody in what they hear...
...Coolidge has set forth definite issues in taxation and the bonus. The trouble is that beyond a few stout supporters, the President is surrounded by a flabby party. At present the Democrats are fairly leaderless. Their strongest champion and the only one to set up a platform a very wide straddle of reduction in taxes and a soldier's bonus has been badly smirched in the oil battle; Senator Underwood has never been strong; and Senator Ralston is known to most people only by the fact that he is a candidate for the Democratic nomination. It therefore seems probable that...
...wide-tooth comb; fine-tooth combs pull the hair out. Hairbrush bristles should be only moderately stiff...