Word: wideness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Nanking. (Mme Chiang's present whereabouts undisclosed for military reasons.) My heart is chilled by the thought of what is coming over the rest of the land in the near and distant future, with our ports blockaded, our wide northern regions being torn by ruin, and all about us here doomed to demolition...
...smoker and speeches yesterday afternoon, Dudley Hall began its third year as gathering place and social center for those who do not make their residence in the College. At the end of the current year no undergraduates will be left who remember the dark days before Dudley Hall flung wide its doors to receive men who do not live in the Harvard Yard and the Houses. Thus an idea and a hope a few years back has been metamorphosed into a reality, and a group that was long neglected has now a place where it can take proper position...
...limited to three quarts of water a day for drinking and washing, a loaf of bread and some beans. Eleven months ago a Rightist relief column from Grado on the west was able to chop through a corridor 18 miles long, in some places only 1,000 yd. wide, to bring men, munitions and food into Oviedo. Still besieged on three sides was Oviedo last week, and Miguel Aranda, now a general, was still its commander, but there was plenty of food in the shell marked shops, the soldiers had plenty of munitions. To reporters Commander Aranda explained his methods...
...clear last week that psychologists, physicists, mathematicians and kibitzing outsiders are beginning to line up in earnest on one side or the other of a prickly question which has already attracted wide general interest: Is Dr. Joseph Banks Rhine right, or is he wrong, in assuming that the evidence amassed by him at Duke University is sufficient to prove the existence of telepathy, clairvoyance and associated faculties of the human mind grouped under the head of "ExtraSensory Perception...
...clangorous world in which municipal antinoise campaigns have attracted wide and favorable attention, most laymen know that a decibel has something to do with the measurement of din, although few could define the term. Meanwhile acousticians have taken up a newer and less well-known unit, the phon, which may well become familiar to laymen because it is even more closely related to the sensibilities of the human ear than the decibel...