Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...margin of error in such standards as college board marks and secondary school grades becomes increasingly wide as the proportion of applicants for admission accepted by colleges diminishes. The chances that the student who averages seventy percent in his entrance examinations will have greater capacity for college work than the student who averages sixty five by no means amount to certainty. Still less can a sure distinction be made between the eighty and seventy five...
Along with the change in size, Liberty offers to advertisers a wide variety of display shapes. The lineage system is to be abolished, and all advertising based on fractions of a page, ⅔, ½, ⅓, ¼, 1/6, ⅛ (1/12), (1/24), If an advertiser wants to buy one-third page, he has his choice of a tall, thin space (one full column) or a square space (one-half of two columns). Thus, the flexibility of the Liberty scheme. Two-page spreads can also be purchased in several fractions and shapes, in rotogravure...
...into a nearby cellar. A convenient priest began to read from the Bible the story of Noah's Ark. By a series of titles it was prodded home that war is like the Flood. Then the picture suddenly dipped back several centuries and went into the story of that wide inundation...
Occasionally the name of Author Sidgwick is mentioned in this country, only to be vaguely connected with the best-selling novelist Sedgwick (with an "e"), and dismissed. Some few, however, cherish an entire shelf of first editions by her with an "i," thus reflecting the wide popularity Mrs. Sidgwick holds in England. Closely related to the Bensons (A. C. and E. F.), she belongs to a literary tradition of quiet humor, leisurely manner (461 close-packed pages to the present volume, the average modern novel boasting some leaded 300). Her particular knack is to vivify a biggish assortment of characters...
...symposium Mr. Beard has merely striven for understanding, a pause to look back and glance at the balance sheet of our present day civilization. In the confusion of the days events, the average Rotarian, rarely finds the moments, or grasps the isolated opportunity to see spread before him the wide vista presented by the present day world and its components. Life is too short! The view is too limited! But aided by a group of eminent men in all fields Mr. Beard has accomplished this height from which the average human can view, undistorted by philosophical sophistry, or modes...