Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...road is a striking engineering achievement, marked by easy grades and wide curves, which seemingly tempt the average driver to "hit it up," for speeds of 60 m.p.h. and better were common until Highway Patrol Chief Ray Cato started to police the stretch...
...sent rank-&-filers trooping into the tight, little Amalgamated Union of Steel's aristocratic craftsmen. The young newcomers jolted Amalgamated's ineffectual old President Michael Francis Tighe out of his well-paid complacency by proposing to improve the steel worker's lot through an industry-wide strike. William Green rushed to Mike Tighe's side, helped him squelch this militant ardor, with the result that most of the newcomers quit the union in despair or disgust...
Philadelphia's $36,000 Cèzanne was a Pennsylvania echo of a world-wide interest in the strange recluse who did not perfect his art until he was 50, was still generally unknown at 60. This year the largest collection of Cèzanne's work yet held was drawing crowds to the Musee de L'Orangerie in Paris. Here $2,000,000 worth of Cèzannes were gathered. Top price paid the artist in his lifetime was only a few hundred dollars...
...cheering in the rain. Putting on an oilskin over his uniform and tossing the white-feathered cocked hat of the Admiral of the Fleet into a corner of the cabin in Flea Boat No. 1, His Majesty had the tiny craft's three 500 h.p. motors opened wide, disappeared toward Spithead in a choppy sea at 44 knots with cascades of spray bursting over his eager head. Twisting and turning at terrific speed among the breakers, Flea Boat No. 1 overhauled the destroyer H. M. S. Amazon which was doing her best to dodge, fired at deadly close range...
...week's law Russia rejoins the rest of the civilized world in prohibiting abortion, except where necessary to preserve the life of the prospective mother, or in extreme cases of venereal disease. Reason: Soviet gynecologists have convinced the Kremlin that 16 years of easy abortion on a nation-wide scale have impaired the health of hundreds of thousands of Russian women, however much it achieved in realizing Communist ideals of equality of the sexes and a single Soviet standard of morality...