Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps the most important book ever written and one of the finest that the Harvard University Press has issued is Mr. Batchelder's "Bits of Harvard History." Entirely different from President Eliot's recent "Harvard Memories," which has had such a wide sale, it is a gathering of odds and ends of tradition from the three centuries of Harvard's existence. The book is based on a lifetime of original research in leisure moments among contemporary records, and official documents, and, on personal experiences in recent years. It contains fifty illustrations as interesting and little-known as the text...
Without in the least disparaging the efforts of either of the two organizations at the University promoting public speaking, it can be admitted that on topics of wide current interest the usual undergraduate is, and under present conditions likely to continue to be, tongue-tied. The Debating Union, an excellent idea developing gradually, serves but a few men; and the Debating Council, through debates scheduled with other universities, serves yet fewer...
Whether this enterprising Dutchman makes his home in the U. S. or not, he is certainly out for business all over the world. He expects world-wide use of the aeroplanes, and in five or ten years thinks that it will be possible to cross the ocean in less than one day as safely as liners do now in five. There is no doubt that when that day comes, Fokker will still be one of the most prominent names in commercial aviation...
...Shah of Persia. One Winter's day he said: "Bring me a wide-awake Yankee, I pray...
Died?Thomas George Lord Shaughnessy, 71, Chairman of the Canadian Pacific Railway, director of a wide range of enterprises from banking to horse racing, in Montreal, of heart failure...