Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Postgraduate," he went back into Yale's rush-line and for that season became the darling of every Yale football enthusiast. With Rusher Heffelfinger at left of centre and Rusher Stanford Newel Morison (also of Minneapolis) at right of centre, that Yale team plowed a wide furrow through its adversaries from which grew a harvest of lasting football fame. Rushers Heffelfinger and Morison, though, had helpful teammates: John Augustus Hartwell (now a famed Manhattan surgeon) in the line; Thomas Lee McClung (onetime [1909-1912] Treasurer of the U. S.) and Vance Criswell McCormick (Democratic National Committee Chair-man in Wilson...
...chief failure so far in the Mexican system has been in the matter of local government. The people frequently regard the local officials as unfairly chosen, which results in a nation-wide political inertia...
...DORA (Defence of the Realm Act), compendium of War-time restrictions, still unrepealed. Frequently flayed was Dora, and it must certainly be admitted that she has produced many children who are quite literally robots. For when, last week, Consolidated Automatic Merchandising Corp.-better known as Cameo-arranged for wide distribution of Cameo automatic talking vending machines throughout the United Kingdom, it was really from Dora that these subhuman salesmen sprung. For Dora's decree made many a public house, cafe and tobacconist close during certain afternoon hours and also close early at night. Ingenious, tradesmen put slot machines...
...walls draped with Nationalist red, blue, and white silk, its floors muffled with a blue silk run of double thickness. Most important of all, there was in final readiness the last bit of pavement on the Chung Shan Chi Nien-great straight memorial road, eight miles long, 140 feet wide, leading from Nanking to Dr. Sun's new mausoleum. Therefore, China's most exalted morticians and highway contractors rested last week from their labors. Everything was in readiness for the grand three-day second funeral of China's first president, Dr. Sun. To build this impressive approach...
...Harvard captain stole to the key-stone sack just before Ticknor was handed a free pass to first. Whitney then banged out a safety, scoring Nugent. The next play produced two more runs. Gilligan poked a grounder at pitcher White whose throw home to cut off Donaghy went wide of its mark, letting in the third baseman and Ticknor, while Gilligan scampered to the hot corner. He subsequently stole home when White offered the batter a slow ball...