Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...positions on the Permanent Class Committee went to Winslow Carlton, of New York City, and William Sterling Youngman, Jr., of Brookline, who enjoyed a wide lead over the remaining two nominees...
...than the purpose of my Government to maintain and improve the good relations." The Hoover reply was in kind. Besides orating about "cooperation" and "contacts," Mr. Hoover tried to define what he means by "goodwill" (see above) and mentioned two specific things for which Costa Rica may be admired-wide distribution of land and home ownership, and four times as many schoolteachers as soldiers...
...bare breeze riffled the three flags atop the nation's law factory. The air was mild and misty. Many people, spectators, workers, newsmen, scurried around the wide plazas. Big autos zipped back and forth importantly...
...Here in the South we are overpopulated but in the Northwest are great spaces where one may travel for days and hardly meet a fellow traveler. There are wide stretches of fertile land around Ninghsia which were densely populated in the days of the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-221 A.D.), which are now desolate. But in various sections of this area one may find foreigners entrenched-little, independent kingdoms with their own police, schools, hospitals and wide roads of their own construction...
...first conspicuous victory was greeted with Union-wide exultation, and curiosity as to this unknown U. S. ("Unconditional Surrender") Grant. Journalists glossed their ignorance with fantastic tales of Grant riding casually to battle, coat un buttoned, cigar in mouth. Immediately the hero was deluged with boxes of cigars -10,000 in quick order - and though he gave hundreds away, "having such a quantity on hand I naturally smoked more than I would have done under ordinary circumstances, and I have continued the habit ever since...