Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to the figures, Harvard should win the meet with a total of 43 points; Dartmouth should capture 40 points for second honors, with Cornell third, only seven point behind. The Crimson runners are generally granted the superiority over their two rivals in the track events, but by how wide a margin it is difficult to conjecture. Cornell, as usual, is powerful in the field events; Dartmouth may be ranked a fairly close second; but the University is a poor third. The outcome of the clash would, therefore, seem to depend entirely on the final event on the schedule...
Fortunately there are other staircases in the Latjeran. Cardinal Gasparri, Signor Mussolini and their suites entered not all kneeling, but militantly erect. They met and faced each other across a massive table, 16 feet long and 4 feet wide, the top hewn from a single log of deep red narra wood from the Philippines. Present at the signing were no guests, no newspapermen, no servants, and only two photographers who scuttled out as soon as they had snapped the awesome scene. The door was then locked and Papal Attorney Pacelli read solemnly the text of the Italo-Papal agreement which...
There were at least two men in love with her-this girl who lived in Greenwich Village with wide innocent eyes. One, a publicity man and therefore a cynic, realized that she was "a charming woman without the faintest conception of her own limitations-damned dangerous." The other, an engineer and therefore an idealist, thought her "like a spearhead of beauty in a difficult world." Certainly she made it difficult for him: ran off with him in spite of, or because of, his wife; then left him in the lurch because, she discovered it was the cynic she "really loved...
Hamilton Silver Eagle-4-to-8 seat cabin monoplane, all metal; high wing tapering in chord and depth; short strut bracing to rectangular fuselage; pilot cabin under leading wing edge, glass-enclosed; passenger cabin goes back with windows to each seat, and wide doors on either side; radial motor...
Ford-3-engined 10-12 seater cabin monoplane; high wing, all metal like the rest of the plane in corrugated sheet; fuselage low slung, heavy; rudder high, wide sweeping; three radial engines, one in nose and two suspended under the wing on either side; pilot's cockpit in advance of leading edge; wide wheel base; steerable wheel on tail skid...