Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Borger situation was similar to that in Mexia. City and county officials were conniving with scofflaws, winking at murders, sponsoring speakeasies and brothels. General Wolters supplanted the conniving officials with his Texas Rangers. Khaki-clad patrolmen directed traffic, policed the suddenly quiet streets. Drinkers no longer rioted in wide-open saloons but tippled alone at home behind locked doors. Bootleggers and daughters of joy, hearing the oldtime frontier command to "get out of town by sundown," scuttled away. The women barbers changed to clothes from pajamas...
...Music of wide appeal will be featured in the joint of concert of the Harvard and Yale Glee Clubs and the Harvard Instrumental Clubs, when these organizations appear in a concert Friday November 22, In Sanders Theatre at 8.30 o'clock...
...purely literary interests. As a result there are people who feel that there is a danger that the emphasis may fall in the near future upon the scholarship of literature, and upon bibliography. There is a special need at the moment for a man with a wide interest for literature, and Professor Lowes will fit this need admirably...
Instead of forcing the men in the course to distribute their work over a diverse selection of required books, everyone is to be allowed to select a pertinent subject in a field of wide range and cover it in the manner which he may see fit. In addition, it will not be necessary to spend half of the reading period preparing a written report to assure the instructor that the work has been done. If this plan is carried out as it has been set forth, a few more of the bonds of preparatory school methods will take another step...
Phelps who will have the distinction of leading the local chapter of the nation wide honorary group, is a member of the editorial board of the CRIMSON. Berkeley is president of the Harvard Liberal Club and is also a member of the University Glee Club...