Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Squash now holds an enthusiasm that has many marks of permanency. Among them, the fact that its growth is not local, but nation-wide, seems to lend credence to the belief that additional courts would not go unused. It would be agreeable if Harvard, with the solution of some of her other athletic problems already in sight, should be able to satisfy a young but lustily growing need...
Through the wide portal of a sumptuous residence in Tokyo a slender Pole strode jerkily. Ushered into the presence of his host, he shook respectfully a crinkly parchment hand. Soon two august heads were laid together in musical conspiracy: 1) The silky-haired topknot of Leopold Stokowski, vacationing conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony and 2) The clipped and pomaded poll of Prince Tokugawa, "the Japanese Otto Kahn," a lineal descendant of the Shoguns or Tycoons ("High Princes") who ruled Japan from 1603 until the present Imperial Dynasty was restored...
...safety devices, he said. "The Navy Department now uses every modern safety appliance possible and the most likely thing that could be done would be to build larger derricks, but when one considers the descents made each year by thousands of submarines, the small number of accidents, and the wide area which the submarines cover this plan seems almost a physical impossibility...
Ugly Margarete married next the Margrave Ludwig. He at least had sufficient hardihood to perform the technical consummation of his marriage. Three children resulted; of these, two died; remained a fat silly prince who carried a dormouse in his pocket, heir to the Margrave's wide possessions. The duchess?who called her castle with the name her peasants had given her?"Maultasch" (Sack-mouth)?found a man as ugly as herself to whom she could entrust her affairs. Konrad of Frauenberg was an albino who found his enjoyment of life in eating, drinking, taking a bath, sleeping and three...
...Author was born 43 years ago in Munich. His youth was spent learning about philosophy and literature among the wide avenues and beer gardens of Munich and Berlin. In 1905 he organized a cabal for the furtherance of modern literature ? an institution which was glared at by the fishy eyes of Imperialism. His plays ? especially Vasantasena which played 1000 times in eight years? made his reputation in Germany. The Ugly Duchess, published in England in the able and sensitive translation which is now to be released in the U. S., became vastly popular as had Author Feuchtwanger...