Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Approved the erection in Manhattan of the projected Broadway Methodist Temple, after much argument and the anxious comment, provided by the opposition, that the Temple would open "a very, very wide door...
Heard Bishop Fisher of India saying: "What we need is to restore the passion of the Church in a world-wide mission and lift Christ above the entanglements of the nations," and pointing out that college students regard missions, missionaries, and missionary work with complete and dismal apathy...
Today and tomorrow Andover celebrates its sesquicentennial anniversary with properly impressive ceremonies. The presence of President Coolidge marks the event as one of far more than state wide importance. But the President is only the first of a long list of distinguished guests who will attend the Academy's two day celebration. Governor Fuller, President Lowell. President Angell of Yale, president Bibben of Princeton. Dr. Perry, principal of Phillips Exeter, and numerous other college presidents, school headmasters, and political leaders will hear witness by their presence to the range of Andover influence. Harvard, Yale, and Princeton must feel a particularly...
...come again upon feminish and its allied evil, industrialian. The general participation of women and the economic struggle has as a wide-spread emotional discouraging of the female organism, a common predisposition to hysteria and nervous explosiveness. The restlessness of women, their baneful pushing into activities for which they are biologically not suited, and the resultant rise in the numbers of congenital defectives, are all fruits of this tree...
...balloting found Smith and Baker far ahead of the rest of the wide field. On the sixth ballot Baker gained the lead, but lost it on the seventh. After this ballot a conference of state chairmen was held, and two ballots later the deadlock was broken as state after state went for Walsh...