Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monday, at approximately 12:32 p. m., Herbert Clark Hoover will find himself on a stand on the Capitol's east steps, a world-wide radio audience invisible in the microphone before him, a printed speech in his hand.* The reading of that speech will be his first official act as 31st President...
...contents himself with a quieter amusement. It is a chess-wise war game. The board is 20 ft. long, 4 ft. wide, a topographical relief map of an imaginary coast line. There are 20,000 square kilometers and over 4,000 pieces, representing every arm of war. Sixteen levels are used, affecting the "travel" and "range" of the miniature units. The game is played in weekly sessions over a period of months. Five Generals and a Commander-in-Chief play simultaneously on each side. The Commander-in-Chief walks back and forth behind his subordinates, surveying the entire field...
President Coolidge was approaching the end of his term of office. He had not yet announced his plans for the future. How might a loud, bold U. S. newspaper have created a nation-wide sensation out of that situation? One way might have been to send to President Coolidge, and simultaneously make public, the following telegram...
...Fort Myers, Fla., last week, Motorman Henry Ford talked of a world-wide Ford factory system. Said he: "I am frank to admit that I am an internationalist." He predicted Ford plants in France, in Russia, in Ireland, in South America and in other (unspecified) countries...
...Leighton will trace, with many illustrations, the history of the art in Europe, from the days when the pilgrims bought a woodcut as a memento of a saint's shrine, through Durer's illustrations to Revelations, down to its revival in the present times. It has now acquired a wide popularity in England and on the Continent; Miss Leighton hopes to introduce it more widely into America...