Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addition will provide two new lecture rooms, exact duplicates of the lecture rooms in the present building. In addition it will contain the dean's and librarian's offices, and several seminar rooms. The new West Wing which will be 114 feet long and 58 feet wide, will have on the first floor a number of professor's rooms, cataloguing and periodical rooms...
...Walk wide, o' the Widow at Windsor...
...numerous fistal engagements which took place last winter during the speakeasy season. Whether or not that is true, Play-smith Dunning knows rackets, racketeers; specifically, he knows Broadway and Broadwayfarers, most of whom are in one racket or another. Not one of their characters has he gone wide of in portrayal...
Typographically uninteresting, written in the stiff, undeviating style of all worthy financial announcements, an advertisement, which measured 8½ inches long, three columns wide, made known last week without obvious effort to do so, that John Davison Rockefeller III had made his debut on a directorate. Said the notice, printed in Manhattan dailies: "To serve adequately the banking needs of the Harlem section of New York City, the Dunbar National Bank of New York . . , will open for business September 17, 1928.'' It said the bank was "established particularly to serve the business and personal banking interests of Harlem...
...ghastly corpse sprawls on the floor, a curious dagger still quivering in its side. The wall-safe gapes open−gone the twin heirloom emeralds, gone the royal Russian ruby. A slip of a girl cowers by the curtain, hand to throat, wide eyes glued to the horrid spectacle. Thunderous knocking at the door−the police! Quavering housekeeper opens; gusty storm blows her grey wisp of hair, flash of lightning glitters in her twin green (emerald green) eyes. Blustering sergeant finds cigaret case initialed J. S. "A plant," sneers John Smith, master detective, who has appeared suddenly in their...