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Word: wide (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...closely associated with him on the CRIMSON board learned not only to respect him, but to love him for his kindly humor and true friendship. Since then he kept in close touch with his classmates through his secretary-ship of the Class of 1904, and by virtue of his wide interest in all Harvard affairs. At every reunion he was our guide, philosopher, and friend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Franklin D. Roosevelt '03 and James Jackson '04, Friends of the Late Payson Dana '04, Concur in Paying Tribute | 11/10/1927 | See Source »

...APPEARANCE in a supposedly RATIONAL sheet in the SOMEWHAT LESS rational MIDDLE WEST of a STATEMENT to the effect that HARVARD MEN are the worst DRESSED MEN on any college CAMPUS the floor for DEBATE and a heated. DISCUSSION of the general QUESTION of men's APPAREL is thrown wide OPEN...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: THE CRIME | 11/9/1927 | See Source »

THIS WILL be made up for BY EXTRA length of TROUSERS and extremely WIDE BELL bottoms REACHING to the ground AND thus covering up the NUDE pedal extremities...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: THE CRIME | 11/9/1927 | See Source »

...largest of these universities contains about 2500 undergraduates, but there is a far smaller percentage of graduate students in Australian universities than in such American institutions as Harvard and Yale. Medicine is one of the most widely studied subjects in the graduate work, although law and engineering receive wide attention. A tendency towards specialization and toward the taking of more practical subjects is also seen at the University of Sydney, Professor. Portus pointed out. This inclination, which is found in many English-speaking countries, in Australia is partly the result of the fact that the Government has appropriated funds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOLDS COADJUTING SYSTEM SUPERIOR | 11/8/1927 | See Source »

...King to be Governor of Fort William. The war with the Colonies started and Burgoyne came to America. To him this place must have appeared unreal and picaresque; as it appears in old engravings and panoramas, a country of little, round hills, of funny irregular cities upon whose wide quiet squares a few bewildered people postured, of dark mysterious forests in which Indians trotted and yodeled and performed their gloomy dances. A citizen of London, he smiled; he watched Bunker Hill as if it had been a sham battle fought in an English park and, when Boston was blockaded, wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Gentleman Johnny | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

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