Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White & Co. sell the securities of the National Toll Bridge Co., the J. G. White Engineering Corp. ("greatest in the world") will superintend the construction of the proposed toll bridges across the Ohio and Missouri rivers. Millions will be spent and huge masses of steel will be flung across wide water, but all the same these jobs are small ones for James Gilbert White. He is a great imperialist of U. S. contracting. Upon five continents his engineers are carrying the dynamic principles of U. S. business into lands where U. S. political influence will perhaps never penetrate. A huge...
...village lad went West, to teach physics in the University of Nebraska, but, when he branched out into contracting, his star rose in the East and he definitely made Manhattan his base of operations in 1890. From his great house on Riverside Drive he can look across the mile wide Hudson River and perhaps dreams of bridging it. With "J. G.," who has now turned 60, lives "J. D.," his son, James Dugald White, 38. "J. D." is a director in all three of his father's companies, but avoids the connotations of "engineer" and describes himself...
...topics chosen by himself from a list of dozen suggested by the events of the past few months, this year's examinations will be in two parts, the first on a variety of facts, and the second an essay on some subject chosen from a wide field...
...summary of the various exhibits now on show at Harvard reveals a wide variety for undergraduate inspection...
...their respective representatives in a single, albeit general examination. For one thing such judgment further enhances the cardinal importance of examinations and grades a the criteria of education. For another it sets up a definite, tangible measure of comparative educational progress at best a matter of wide interpretative possibility and individual temperament...