Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nearly two months ago (TIME, May 28), there appeared in the Oxford Isis an editorial denouncing "Buchmanism." Like all criticism of this cult, the editorial received wide publicity. Observers in the U. S. supposed that English collegians, like the majority of their U. S. fellows, had been stung to fury by an unauthorized insertion of an unpopular propaganda. Such a supposition was not encouraged by a letter which was soon published in the London Times...
Charles II, King of England, rode horses in the races at Newmarket: in sporting bars, there are prints that show him leaning back on a lanky thoroughbred, leading the field across a wide and rumpled turf. George IV, when he was Prince of Wales and later during his regency until he began to put on too much weight, rode his thoroughbreds against gentlemen who knew him too well not to pull their mounts when they galloped into the stretch. Last week, for the first time in a century, a prince of England rode to the barrier for a regular race...
...flying country club. Miss Ruth Rowland Nichols, Junior Leaguer of Rye, N. Y., enthusiastic amateur aviatrix with a non-stop flight from New York to Miami to her credit, shouldered the task of promoting three clubs in New York and New Jersey, forerunners of a nation-wide chain of private and exclusive country clubs devoted to aeronautical sports. Associated with Promoter Nichols are such younger capitalists as William A. Rockefeller, William Hale Harkness, George Pynchon, George Post...
...Hudson. The way experts figured it out, either Columbia or California had to win. But when, at Poughkeepsie, a gun went off and seven crews splashed in a racing start, it was Cornell that jumped out in front. Down the river, wide and grey, covered with launches, canoes, yachts, ferryboats, the boats moved from Krums Elbow toward the bridge that rose, a web of iron, in the mist. At the mile and a half, Cornell had more than a length on the others. At two and a half miles, Cornell was rowed out and Columbia was leading California...
...leaf turned over in honor of Hettie was quickly spattered with the blood of that worst of offenders, one who had struck a woman. And when later Lacy pitched himself into the free-for-all cattle wars of wide-open Arizona, his deserving victims fell thick and fast. Hettie's family, innocent immigrants to Arizona, had engaged a slick cattle thief as foreman of their ranch, and their cattle losses were climbing to the tens of thousands when Lacy, posed as a rustler himself, smartly unearthed the plots of rustling outfits, and plugged the treacherous foreman full of justice...