Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Their first studies, made on 50 patients with gall-bladder disease and 39 patients with ulcers of the stomach or intestines, indicated that persons who are heavy in relation to their height are more likely to have gall-bladder disease than are other persons. They also found that a wide angle between the ribs, at the point where they diverge in front, is a frequent finding in infections of the gallbladder. And they observed that the jaws and teeth of persons with gall-bladder disturbances were likely to differ in measurements from those of normal persons. While none...
...aviation," will he retained another year by the Air Mail Service. The wonderful transcontinental night flights of the Post Office pilots last August (TIME, Sept. 3) earned the unanimous vote of the Contest Committee of the National Aeronautic Association, though they were free to select the winner from a wide field of Army, Navy and civilian contestants...
Besides the requirement of original, independent thinking on the part of authors, Mr. King mentioned wide reading, continued "pegging away," and "something worth saying," as other necessities...
...Grant first came into nation-wide prominence a year ago when his outspoken liberal views stirred up a bitter controversy in the New York diocese of the Episcopal Church. He took a decided stand against a literal interpretation of the Bible, maintaining that it should be applied to present-day needs and problems in a practical way Bishop William T. Manning of the New York diocese disagreed violently with Dr. Grant's utterances, and the dispute that followed shook the Episcopal Church to its foundations. Dr. Grant was firm in his advocacy of a livable religion and refused to retract...
...raising of the entrance requirements of universities, which has led to a corresponding raising of the standards of graduate schools, and the introduction of choice in entrance requirements, have had a nation-wide influence under President Eliot's leadership. As chairman of a committee of ten of the National Educational Association in 1890, he exerted a strong influence on secondary education throughout the country...