Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What the Treasury Department in Washington characterized as a "wide de- parture," what many a Wet construed as a reduction of the law to an absurdity, what many a Dry welcomed as a solution of the problem of punishing liquor buyers occurred last week in the U. S. District Court at Peoria, 111. There Federal Judge Louis Fitzhenry laid down a new and startling interpretation of the Jones...
...week by J. P. Morgan & Co. with U. S. and British associates. That Japan can stabilize on so small a credit-Britain required $300,000,000 when she stabilized in 1925-is due partly to the fact that Tokyo is so far from other gold marts that a wide spread always gapes between parity of the yen and the point at which it would be profitable to ship out gold. Since Sept. 12, 1917 gold exports from Japan have been forbidden but the embargo will be lifted simultaneously with formal stabilization...
...first time how narrow are the areas within which all the gorillas in the world, outside of zoos, are confined. The map also raises a problem for scientists in the difficulty of explaining why the gorilla should not be found elsewhere, and also why a forest belt 750 miles wide should separate the homes of the two known subspecies...
...have had brought to my notice an issue of your paper containing an interview with Dr. C. N. Greenough, in which he seems to think that I have, in my annual report, which was somewhat widely reported in the press, intimated that Harvard is about to start small university colleges. He rightly maintains that the new "houses" are not colleges at all. In this he is right. I have said in that report: "It is purposed to divide Harvard undergraduates into houses where they may life in closer contact with resident scholars. To many, the plan seems less significant than...
...night last week, three cars sped up to the gate of the high-walled U. S. Naval Base in Brooklyn, N. Y., where are stored the Atlantic fleet's supplies. Out leaped six men. A guard felt the tickly touch of revolver muzzles, swung open the gate. Into the wide Naval Depot yard swept the cars. The guard was forced to unlock the door of the eight-story main building. Then the raiders trussed him up, plastered his mouth with adhesive tape, locked him in the Depot detention...