Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From Canada, from the green teeming northern forests to Walton, N. Y., came well-named Robert Carver North, aged 12. Lecturing in a Methodist church, he showed pictures of streams far away under big strange trees, of mysterious mischievous animals, of great mountains, of wide unfamiliar lakes in which shone, with the regular rhythm of a clock, the black night sky or, in the daytime, the reflection of green hills. These were photographs which he had made when on an expedition, consisting of himself and one Indian guide, 1,250 miles into the wilderness of Canada...
...Harvard graduates actually meet in the Yankee Stadium will the report of the game scheduled for October 30 be more than half-believed. To arrange the teams is a difficult project for even C. C. Pyle. If played, the game will doubtless be a financial success, and will attract wide publicity. It will do nothing, however, toward "burying the hatchet" between Princeton and Harvard. For the hatchet has been buried ever since the break eleven months ago, and the resumption of athletic relations must await the time when a Princeton-Harvard undergraduate contest will not cause the reappearance of this...
...class. The ticket is punched at the entrance to the platform, the agent regulating the number of people passing him to avoid overcrowding on the platform. Many of the stairways are divided; people entering go down to the right, those leaving go up to the right. The wide subway doors are all on the side, usually three of them, so that the cars can be emptied and filled rapidly. Doors must be opened by hand, they close automatically. The average stop at stations is about 15 seconds. There are no expresses...
...mutilated country. Standing erect, well over six feet tall, gaunt & sinewy, his grizzled beard almost covering his necktie, he is a commanding figure. And speaking a dozen languages fluently?English almost perfectly?with a rare gift for oratory and inescapable charm, he has made himself a world-wide figure, known intimately, and usually beloved, by the statesmen of at least two continents. It is doubtful if the word of any living Hungarian carries as much moral weight as that of Count Apponyi...
...must enlarge his influence; with this in mind he began to publish in a religious weekly, the Inde-pendent,* containing sermons or other miscellaneous notions. Scandal. On the staff of the Independent was a young man, one Theodore Tilton, whose wife was '"an ideal mother; a woman of wide reading and fine literary taste . . . affectionate disposition...