Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Saturday Evening Post enjoyed a wide sale among Navy men and anti-Administration politicians. On p. 6 appeared an article called "The Navy and Economy" by Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder...
...Irish Free State was the arena of a nation-wide battle. The weapons were ballot papers, with an odd revolver and a shillalah or two for emphasis; political armies fought for the control of the Dublin executive machinery...
...surveyed the scene before him. To one side court bards chanted a portion of the classics in a low tone. The great of the Empire surrounded the Imperial group. In it was Premier Güchi Tanaka, clad immaculately in Occidental formal attire. Hands placed together, he prayed, standing, eyes wide open, before a flag-adorned shrine...
...expended its mighty energy. At Yokohama, northeast, a cyclone scurried, twisting 'and twirling, in its wake, howling too. Off went tin roofs, shutters, sun-blinds; down came chimneys, many small houses and buildings; and over went freight cars. So rapidly went the roaring blast (60 yards wide) that many people working indoors were not aware of the huge whirlwind until it was raging 100 yards or so away. And so great was the debris that the railways were blocked for hours...
...when he started as a Sophomore at left end on the Stadium turf. Strong's is the only name in the last of this year's ends which appeared regularly in last year's line ups. In addition to Strong and Coombs, however, Horween has several wingmen of wide gridiron experience. R. H. O'Connell '30 and John Prior '29, both outstanding figures in preparatory school football three years ago, the former at Exeter where he was captain and the latter at Andover, were prominent members of the Freshman eleven two years ago. O'Connell was not in college last...