Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arms. His big head was covered with an untidy tangle of hair. Above his forehead there was a bald patch which, as I subsequently learned, came from a blow administered to him for horse stealing. He seemed to be about 40 years old. He was wearing a long coat, wide trousers and long boots. . . . His whole bearing attracted attention; he appeared unconstrained in his movements, and yet there seemed to be something dissembled about him-something suspicious, cowardly and searching...
...visitors know that the old doctor has been using fever-causing toxins 'to treat paralysis since 1887; that since 1919 his malaria method has been in wide...
...Book should please intelligent people who hitherto have been able to find the work of George Bellows extensively displayed only in galleries. It contains a preface by Thomas Beer; is three-quarters of an inch thick, twelve inches wide, fourteen inches long...
Grain. Wheat, most speculative commodity in financial trading, whipsawed at the hands of speculators last week. Many bushels were sold but fluctuations were not wide and the price closed for December delivery at 1.24 ¾. Canadian farmers rushed grain to ports to beat deliveries of U. S. growers, and storage elevators of the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railroads nearly burst to accommodate receipts. In one day Canadian Pacific elevators accepted 4,454,425 bushels exceeding all previous records...
...Overbanked." A bank president from Sugar City, Idaho (Guy Emerson Bowerman), coined the word "overbanked" to characterize the condition of the country from that financial aspect. Urged he: "Fewer, stronger and more profitable banks." He favored consolidations and a country-wide system of chain banks as branches linked to giant parent institutions...