Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Therefore the Memorial must not be of a purely utilitarian nature but must have a high spiritual significance. This limits the wide field of possibilities to a Monument; a New Memorial Church and possibly the use of Holden Chapel. Plans show that a beautiful shrine could be made out of the interior, but the objection is that the building would still be known only as Holden Chapel. The chief objections to a new church are the cost, involving delay, and the fact that Appleton Chapel was built from the gift of a Harvard graduate and therefore is a trust which...
...Matsui, Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, addressing a conference of Prefectural Governors in Tokyo, said: "Japan will do her utmost to bring about early restoration of normal relations with Russia, despite the wide difference still existing between the views and policies of the two powers...
John Buchan, as a writer, is a man of enormous power. As the author of adventure stories, such as Mr. Standfast and Greenmantle, he has already won wide recognition as a novelist. As a historian he bids fair to surpass Carlyle, both in the excellence of his style and on the merits of his prose...
...were to be his. Upon the Earl's death, the agreement was continued with his estate and widow, Countess Almina. Exclusive rights were sold to the London Times and the Associated Press. The Cairo authorities have been fighting this provision ever since the long-sought discovery aroused world-wide furore...
...colleague with an "After you, my dear Alphonse,"--just one week after the first appearance of the "Alphonse-and-Gaston" strip illustrates admirably its far-reaching effects. Who is there, indeed, who is not--from time to time if not regularly--exposed to a funny paper? The circulation and wide popularity of the comic supplements have made them powerful factors in American life...