Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact the Union Press box is unique in its position in regard to the elements. Walled in on three sides and with a wide projecting roof, this enclosure never gets the benefit of the fresh October winds which find their way so easily into the analagous seats atop most Stadia. This inordinate confinement combines with the position directly over the smoking cigarettes of a capacity crowd to make the air hardly fit for use. Aside from the matter of hygiene, the decrease in visibility resultant from this pall makes discernment of the grid-graph a matter of blind chance reason...
...Woollcott is one of the best known and wittiest of New York's dramatic critics. His experiences with the stage and journalism have been wide and interesting, and as he has an exceptional first hand knowledge of the production and writing of all varieties of dramatic work...
...Wide awake in an instant, M. le President sprang up with beaming face. For a whole week he had tried to get M. Poincaré to form a new ministry in succession to the Poincaré Cabinet of Sacred Union, torpedoed last fortnight (TIME, Nov. 12).* At first the "Lion of Lorraine" had sulked and growled resentment at the torpedoing-the growls and sulks abating slowly. His sudden appearance now at ten p.m. meant unquestionably that he had succeeded in arranging a new and workable group of parties and ministries. Soon President Gaston Doumergue formally approved the following cabinet...
...London society of which he has such wide and intimate knowledge is the background for his latest essay. People literary, artistic and scientific are his actors,--people who would normally be expected to have lofty aspirations which flub completely in the face of situations and forces quite as common as any existant in a lower social strata...
...brilliantly successful. Prices soared far above 40?., reached a high in 1925 of $1.21 a pound and in that year averaged 73? U. S. rubber users, tiremakers, were in a public panic. They pressed a campaign of conservation. They began to "reclaim" used rubber. They started a world-wide search for plantations where the U. S. might produce its own supply. They commissioned Thomas Alva Edison to study how to extract rubber from such plants as milkweed. And, in 1926, tiremakers formed the Rubber Pool to buy a great supply at between 35 and 41? a pound...