Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experience of the Harvard chapter with the national organization should be enough to convince the leaders of the Union here of the troubles that the nation-wide group has brought to them. One consideration is the financial drain, for out of every dollar that the Harvard Student Union collects from its members in dues, fifty cents must be sent to the national treasury in New York. In return for this consideration the national union supplies the Harvard group with news of its operations, the privilege of having union cards in a nation-wide society, and the responsibility of participating...
...links' main span across the river which cost $2,885,000 is the biggest bascule bridge in the world. Locally dubbed Centennial Bridge, the double-leaf structure is 331 ft. long, wide enough (108 ft.) for eight traffic lanes, rests its 18,400,000-Ib. on 32 caissons, sunk to bedrock, 102 ft. below water level. It is so delicately balanced that no more than two 100 h.p. motors are required to lift its huge jaws skyward for occasional vessels to pass in & out. of the Chicago River. Some Chicagoans were disconcerted by the two right angle turns...
...biggest oil evaporator tower in existence. Best man to build it, Stanolind found, was Morris W. Kellogg of Jersey City. From Lukens Steel Co. Mr. Kellogg ordered the longest slabs of special steel any fabricator ever turned out for such work. They measured 50-ft. long, 10-ft. wide, 2 5/16-in. thick and were curved to make a cylinder of 15-ft. diameter. Kellogg boilermakers welded them together and X-rayed every inch of welded seam to make sure that the tank would never break down...
...Gertrude Stein's remark to him ("You are all a lost generation") he used as motto for The Sun Also Rises, whence it took its wide currency. *Croaked the N. Y. Herald Tribune's Isabel Paterson: ''There is no loftiness of spirit in his books, and a book must have a soul to be great." Max Eastman accused Hemingway of having "... a literary style, you might say, of wearing false hair on the chest. . . ." J. B. Priestley spoke of ". . . Mr. Ernest Hemingway's raucous and swaggering masculinity, which I am beginning to find rather tiresome...
Emulating the work of their big brother Varsity players, the Junior Varsity yesterday flashed a wide open game in defeating the Providence College Freshman team on Soldiers Field...