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Word: wide (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy." When Secretary Wilbur submitted the "Big Navy" bill to Congress, the boom of billions echoed far and wide. At home and abroad the U. S. has been hotly accused of seeking revenge for the failure of last year's Geneva Conference, at which British and U. S. ideas on cruiser construction became deadlocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Waging Peace | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

...British Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. One of the two genii of the fountain is a fabulously shrewd and rich international night club man. The Knight of Grace is Chairman Frank Henry Cook of the Board of Thomas Cook & Son, Ltd., famed world-wide tourist agents. The genii control La Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Européens, which, however, one calls "Wagons-Lits," ("Vagon-Lee"), and everyone knows to be the firm which owns all the sleeping cars on the Continent.* Last week "Wagon-Lits" absorbed "Cooks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wagon-Cooks | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

Gotham Silk Hosiery (A wide gamut of poetically named stockings)-$3.697,452. Previous year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: More Earnings | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

...says further, "It is apparent that current magazines and daily papers are at present subjecting all colleges to sharp and often undeserved criticism, and that Smith has seemed to come in for a particularly heavy share." The charge of immorality which is mentioned, is the outcome of the country wide publicity given a questionnaire on sex distributed three years ago in a course in advanced psychology at the suggestion of students, and without the knowledge of the higher college authorities. But the news added meat to the theories of persons already convinced of the seditious and iconoclastic tendencies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNPLEASANT ATTENTION | 2/8/1928 | See Source »

Candidates for the Editorial board will be required to submit at least one editorial a day. They are expected to keep in close touch with affairs of the day, outside of the University as well as within its walls, and to submit contributions embracing a wide field of interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1929 AND 1930 GET WHACK AT CRIMSON EDITORIALS | 2/7/1928 | See Source »

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