Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mark Kent, Jill Middleton, and Joseph Leo do the best acting of the evening. Walter Gilbert, as Ben, is rather too polished. He is not at his best as a man from the wide open spaces, who shows his virility by wearing a rather good suit, the trousers of which he has tucked into shiny new overshoes...
...soldier of fortune, veteran of the World War, in which he lost a leg, and coworker of Ferdinand de Lesseps who almost built the Panama Canal French private companies, has come back to his first love. He wants to substitute a billion-dollar, sea-level strait, 1,000 feet wide at the bottom for the present lock canal built by the U. S. Government under President Roosevelt...
Apparently the United States Senate is rather more concerned over the Bok Peace Plan than is Harvard. Of course the Plan mentions the League of Nations and is being referred to as wide a body of public opinion, as is possible. Doubtless there are reasons enough--to the Senate--for being certain that the jury was packed with inveterate Leaguers...
...Senate should have little to worry over. The referendum per se should receive as fair a trial of its value in a large University as under any other conceivable conditions. Therefore when the Peace Plan referendum at Harvard has proved so little, one may be sure that the Nation-wide referendum on the same subject will not be any more conclusive...
...Keir continued, "It would be next to impossible to transform Harvard into a group of English Colleges. The expense would be tremendous, and I'm not sure that I advocate the change; but if the gap was not made too wide it might be well for Harvard to emulate Oxford in many respects...