Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interested will be very welcome, but it should be borne in mind that the duty of chairman of any of these tables presupposes a wide knowledge of the subject and will also require an ability to conduct informal discussion between a group ranging from Cabinet members to undergraduates...
Through Rio's streets, around the wide sickle of Rio's bay, and up into the misty hills beyond, the bi-Presidential party rode 30 miles into the country to attend the first function of the day, luncheon at the home of Tycoon E. G. Fontes. There Franklin Roosevelt had his first opportunity to charm the denizens of high South American society, including Senora Vargas and her two daughters...
...formal volume of collected works. The collected poems of Dorothy Parker, although they hold up better than most, are no exception. Epigrams that seemed sprightly when they first appeared and were quoted by a thousand after-dinner speakers tend to look lonely and sallow printed as poetry on a wide-margined page. Not So Deep As a Well includes all of Dorothy Parker's poems except a few that she did not wish reprinted, reveals her expert craftsmanship, the narrow range of her humor, her keen eye for fleecy feminine affectations. It also reveals that her major contribution...
...poems. From north to south they are the Waccamaw, the Pee Dee, the Black, the Sampit, the Santee, the Cooper, the Ashley, the Edisto, the Ashepoo, the Combahee, the Savannah. Near the mouths of these slow streams, in a region 150 miles long and about 50 miles wide, were the great rice plantations that before the Civil War made the South Carolina Low Country "the most prosperous area on the continent." In 1850 it had 446 plantations, each producing more than...
...over and says I am dead, which I want to deny but can't. So I think I must be dead too. An ambulance whisks my body to the morgue, where I am laid on a cold slab. My flesh is cold, the blood dried, and my eyes wide and staring. Lying there naked, I am about to request the attendant to cover me with more than a sheet, when I awake with a strong wind blowing through the casement and on my uncovered self...