Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Plan is being tested by a nation-wide referendum, after which the name of its originator will be announced. Of the 22,165 plans submitted, the judges selected the one which they deemed "the best practicable plan by which the United States, may cooperate with other nations to achieve and preserve the peace of the world...
...buildings at the cross-roads falling into decay; they have seen larger brick buildings replacing them at central points; and they have met buses on the hard roads conveying pupils from considerable distances to the new seats of instruction. But few have known that it was a nation-wide affair, few have known that it had a long history behind...
...rules of the Policy Committee of the Bok Plan is that the author should be pledged to secrecy until the nation-wide vote is completed. Several friends of Professor, Hudson have commented on the similarity between the Bok Plan and Hudson's views for securing peace, but all consider it unlikely that he is the actual author of the winning plan...
...they exist either because the employers and employees understand each others' motives or because the unions in those industries are not strong enough to enforce any other condition. Shop committees are unsatisfactory in that they rarely produce capable leaders and cannot make agreements which will extend over a wide field. And Mr. Bullard's arguments for the buttress which public opinion would afford Labor if the latter would accept the open shop are inconclusive. In fact he mentions at the close of his article the great difficulty of arousing public opinion...
...close upon the announcement that Fred F. Mitchell, ex-manager of the Boston Braves, will drill the battery candidates, seems to indicate that a determined effort is being made to strengthen the baseball coaching department. The University, Second, and Freshman teams will all have directors of proven ability and wide experience both as players and coaches. The waning baseball prestige of the University should thus be in a large measure revived