Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hard by, the Great Smoky Mountains park, a 327,000-acre swath of Blue Ridge territory, six to ten miles wide, between Front Royal and Waynesboro in Virginia, is to be secured as the Shenandoah National park. Last week, the $4,000,000 fund necessary for this project was reported within $100,000 of completion...
...Samdach Préah Bat Kampuchéa Sisowath, later King of Cambodia (TIME, Aug. 22). Because King Sisowath's little realm on the Gulf of Siam became a French protectorate in 1863, his seven-months-old corpse was honored, last week, not only by black, flat-faced, wide-mouthed Cambodians, but by French officials whose glossy, narrow-waisted clothes spelled Paris...
...conditioned reflexes become. The ability to learn by experience, which is simply a matter of conditioning the reflexes, increases; the animal can adjust to ever more varied environments. Man has the most intricately convoluted upper brain of the whole animal kingdom and can therefore adapt himself to a wide range of conditions...
...coats of watchers at a six-day race show spots from the drop that runs down a bottle of pop when you drink out of it. Their heads keep turning from side to side as if they were rapidly reading the page of a book a block wide. All week in Madison Square Garden drops fell onto coats and faces turned from side to side, from side to side, all morning, all afternoon, all night, for six days. And round the pale pine dish the riders pedaled, jammed, sprinted, drank beef juice out of paper cups, pasted their burned legs...
Reproved for a listless workout in the gym, Jack Sharkey, heavyweight wide-mug challenger, blustered "You didn't hear Caruso yodeling high C's on streetcorners, did you? . . ." In the Pennsylvania station, Manhattan, Enrico Caruso was once heard by the late Critic James Gibbons Huneker singing for a flower girl who had asked for his signature...