Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have never read nor subscribed for any periodical that became so much a part of my life as TIME has become. When TIME comes into my home it demands reading throughout. This is due, I think, to the complete and concise treatment of world-wide news and to the distinguished style and diction. I have much to praise, little to criticize in TIME...
...might mention some incidents which have made me realize the wide spread influence of TIME among cultured people. I have attempted no less than three different times, in three separate classes, to arouse respect for my wide knowledge of current events by plagiarizing incidents re lated in TIME, and each time the professor has smilingly and somewhat devastatingly retorted, "Yes, I read about that in TIME." So you see the plight a poor collegian is in when he tries to put your magazine to such practical uses...
Meanwhile, Irish societies in the District of Columbia began a na tion-wide campaign to have such cinemas removed from theatres. The Maryland convention of the Ancient Order of Hibernians adopted two resolutions: 1) to condemn cinemas belittling the Irish; 2) to oppose the entry of the U. S. into the World Court...
...shut in the city. On one spreads a castle fortress built during the Middle Ages. When the sun sets sombre behind it, a trumpet from the far crenelated wall sounds the night watch. The other hill is the Caperzinergerg (Hill of the Capuchin monks), up which winds a long, wide walk lined with shrines of the saints. Nearby lie salt mines, from which the town takes it name...
...book is mostly conversational and falls into the conversational pitfalls of protraction, repetition and ranting. But for a long time it is good conversation?high, wide and exciting...