Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even the best advice. Then again the process might be found to be merely borrowing from Peter to pay Paul, overworking the junior for the sake of saving the senior. There is left, then the obvious question as to whether such a policy could be effective on a wide enough basis to benefit many. The matter should be worth serious consideration, however, for in theory it has much to commend it. The practical application of the plan on a small scale, in the managership of the polo team, should, at any rate, prove extremely interesting, and the idea may prove...
...becomes more and more evident that intense study is for most men incompatible with outside activities. The choice between the two must be made; and, as the emphasis on matters academic enlarges, the desire, and indeed the possibility, of participation in the wide field ranging from athletics to music and literary work, is lessened. Unquestionably the verdict for scholarship is a just one. Still, no one yet expects from the college student the singleness, of scholastic purpose teat characterizes the graduate; and the present mean is one beyond which the administration's requirements can go but little without weighing down...
...solution of the problem of the first two collegiate years hinges upon the organization of a program permitting the student to make a wide survey of various fields of intellectual interests. In order that he may determine the direction which he should finally take." The New York Times...
Smoke Clouds. Near Stuttgart, Germany, guns spit up bombs; the bombs burst in air and from them spread wide layers of smoke clouds. Flyers in planes could not see terrain or buildings below the smoke. The device seemed a good protection to the Germans against an inimical air attack...
Broom corn grows in sandy Kansas, Illinois and Oklahoma soil. It is still a valuable crop, despite vacuum cleaners' wide use. The U. S. crop this year is worth about $4,000,000. Last week growers set up a cry; they need harvest hands at once, else the crop may be spoiled...