Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spalding is also a musician of wide experience. His early studies were under the leading violinists of New York, Florence and Bologna, and his first public appearance was in Paris with Adelina Patti. Later, as one of the soloists with the New York Symphony Orchestra he played to audiences in every part of Europe on the first European concert tour made by any American orchestra...
...face greater difficulties in maintaining the status quo than met the Holy Alliance. There is an alternative method, that of bringing all pugilistic wrangles into a court where England shall stand judge and the United States executioner. But such a fulfillment of Mr. Lloyd George's prophecy demands world wide acceptance of English dominance, which France at least will scarcely concede...
...trip which he made for the purpose of collecting mammals, reptiles and fishes for the University Museum. His most striking success was made in the region of Saps Mountain, which had previously been very little explored since early Spanish Colonial times. Dr. Barbour is a naturalist of country-wide reputation, and the author of several papers on fishes and reptiles. At present he is curator of books relating to the Pacific at the University Museum...
Dean Stone was graduated from Amherst in 1894, a year ahead of Calvin Coolidge, and later from Columbia Law School. His reputation is wide and high as practitioner, law teacher, legal writer. He became Dean of Columbia in 1910, instituted an immediate elevation of the scholastic standard...
...third period the Freshmen re- covered an Andover fumble at mid-field and rushed to the 25-yard line where Zarakov made an attempt at a drop kick that went wide of the goal posts...