Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...formed the Sinclair Gulf Corp. with his own fleet of ships. While larger companies were getting War contracts, he, an alert independent, developed a Latin-American trade. In 1919 he let his friends in on various "ground floors" of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp., a towering organization of world-wide schemes...
...always patronizes the same tailor because that tailor wears exactly his size clothing. Mr. Schwab will return to England in April to receive the Bessemer medal* from the British Industrial and Steel Institute. Will H. Hays, famed deus ex machina of the U. S. cinema industry, took his waspy, wide-eared self aboard the Leviathan, last week, and sailed for France. He was not fleeing from further Senate questioning as to his onetime stewardships of Republican campaign funds (TIME, March 12 et seq.). He went to dicker with the newly created French State Board of Film Censors (TIME...
...hero, Baron Cushendun, rose and towered six feet six over the wide horse shoe table in the League Glass Room. With biting innuendo and battering logic for more than an hour he attacked the Soviet draft convention article by article, and finally in principle...
Scientists scowled at the ignorance of one so prominent as Bishop Furse, at the gullibility of the press for giving wide publicity to another television error...
...trying to represent the pattern or the temperament of response to conditions of different people. They believe that if these experiments are conducted long enough by people and on a wide enough scale if will be possible to find out facts concerning the human body which will have an effect athletically, industrially, and economically. It will be possible to find out what is wrong with people, what jobs they are fit for why they are not successful in other jobs, and to what diseases they are subject...