Word: widely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parted with 60% of her body and lived to tell the tale. During the first month she lost twelve pounds, in 20 months she got rid of 239 pounds. Only discomfort she suffered was the surgical removal of an apron of skin, two feet long and one foot wide, which hung loosely over her deflated abdomen. When she weighed in at 156 pounds, said Dr. Short, "she was in excellent health and spirits...
...which come under the general head of politics, economics and the social sciences. In this enormous mass of books -good, bad, ponderous, specialized, dull, exciting, original, confused, confusing-a few stand head & shoulders above rivals in their respective fields. Some emerge from the year's crowd by their wide popular appeal, a few because of their unquestionable literary significance, still fewer because they offer contributions of importance to the consequential issues of the modern world. Outstanding titles...
...seems to me especially significant at this time that the Harvard Student Union last night elected as President John Stillman '40, a student who is a representative of as wide a diversity of campus interests as the Lampoon, the crew and hockey team...
When the most conservative and reactionary elements on the campus find it expedient to form a political organization, we may rest assured that the ivory tower no longer stands. The mere existence of such an organization, coupled with the world wide spread of fascism, has shown Harvard students that traditional political inactivity no longer signifies a tacit faith in ever-widening American democracy. Democracy today is threatened by dynamic and fast-working enemies, and democracy can only be preserved by political action on the part of its adherents. Thus the great mass of unaffiliated Harvard students are registering a vote...
...contest for the title of "proudest small town in America," judges awarded the prize to Cadiz, Ohio (pop., 2,597). Reason: it "has had more citizens of wide renown than any other community under ten thousand population." Some famed Cadizians: Critic Percy Hammond, Cinemactor Clark Gable, Robert P., Charles S. and Thomas A. Scott, inventors of ''the peach parer, the pea viner and the pea podder...