Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...files are thousands of outlines (technically known as "conforms") of heads as they appear when looked straight down at. Generally speaking, there are two main types of outline-a long, narrow ellipse hardly wider at the centre than at the ends, and a short, pear-shaped figure with the wide part at the back. Long and narrow were the heads of Theodore Roosevelt, Robert G. Ingersoll, Victor Herbert. Short and pear-shaped were the heads of Ulysses S. Grant, Charles Frohman, General Phil Sheridan...
Because of the wide divergency in time between Oregon and Massachusetts, the results of the opponent's play had not been received at a late hour last night...
...modernized city. Seville's exposition has been 19 years in preparation, many times postponed. The main building was used as a hospital during the War. Trees have grown up; the buildings look settled. This winter, however, it was decided that the old crooked streets of Seville were not wide enough for the large expensive automobiles of expected tourists, Seville's hotel accommodations were insufficient. Old blocks were ruthlessly torn down, new streets hastily laid out, new hotels built. Andalusian Seville of Washington Irving and the Giralda Tower were hastily awakened. Like anyone just awakened from a long sleep...
Loudly intoned by the press, these astonishing appraisals produced country-wide reverberations. The world's auction room record for a painting was a mere $377,000.* The U. S. record was only $360,000.† The record for a private sale was $750,000.** Even this last figure, in the face of the announced appraisals seemed likely to be surpassed...
...public may nominate for the Hall of Fame any of its heroes, provided they have been dead 25 years. The names are considered by a New York University Senate. If two Senators approve of a name it goes to a nation-wide committee of electors, which includes no N. Y. U. officials. The names which receive at least three-fifths of the votes are thereupon inscribed in the Hall...