Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excreted from one human body each day. Yet these 30 trillions weigh, on the average, only two ounces. The biggest known microbe is the bacillus bütschlii (found in the cockroach), which may be 50 microns (one 500th of an inch) in length and about one-tenth as wide. Among the smallest is the bacillus influenzae (0.8x0.3 microns), although the filterable viruses are believed to consist of ultramicroscopic organisms very much smaller. The most active bacteria move about .0012 of an inch a second. In proportion to size, this would mean a speed of more than a mile...
Reich Dictator. The setting up of a Dictator with wide powers to crush revolt is undoubtedly a protectionist policy. The rise of a Dictator in Germany was expected and was only a corollary of successive failures on the part of various Governments to deal with a complex internal situation aggravated by still more complex foreign relations and obligations. The political currents flowing against the sides of the Government barge were strong and numerous. There were the Monarchists, whose ranks were split by the Hohenzollern and Wittelsbach factions; the Communists, whose opposition to the Government was equal to that...
...proposition is by no means so simples as it seems. Consider the difficulty of securing the services of a sufficient member of men of the proper calibre for such work. They would have to be of mature judgement and whole have to be of mature judgement and wide knowledge within their own field. The cost of obtaining such men would be very large indeed. Certain members of the division are not yet convinced that the results would justify the outlay...
...popularly known, it is said, as "the best-loved man in Northern Europe." He has no temporal power of office, but he has a real temporal as well as spiritual power of personality and of scholarship which has been felt throughout a considerable stretch of the earth almost as wide as the reach of his Viking forebears, who penetrated not only westward to the edges of America but eastward and southward to the further shores of the Euxine...
...Carlo Company now has played for more than two weeks, and has given ample demonstration of its capabilities. Its principals are better this season than last. It retains most of its stars, some of these of wide reputation-Anna Fitziu, Alice True Gentle, Marie Rappold, Sophie Charlebois, Bianca Saroya, Manuel Salazar, Taki Miura. It has made some noteworthy additions-the tenors Tommasini and O'Moore, the soprano Consuelo Escobar. Its productions are generally " good "- voices, orchestra, chorus...