Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following legitimate reasons." You then cite twelve such reasons. These twelve reasons are correctly quoted from p. 279, but they are preceded by the following sentence: "The minor indications for therapeutic abortion give rise to the greatest differences of opinion, according to Whitehouse, who enumerates a wide range of conditions that have been claimed as justifying interruption...
Maryland. Twelve feet of white-capped water from the Potomac and Wills Creek swirled at 20 m. p. h. over five square miles of Cumberland, Md. One man died, of heart failure. The Potomac, two miles wide in places and looking from the air like a huge, clay-colored lake, rolled on to flood seven valley towns. Four spans of the old vehicular bridge at Harper's Ferry, entrance to the Shenandoah Valley, were swept away. At Anacostia the Navy got 35 planes off to Hampton Roads before the flying field went under. In Washington 1,500 WPA workers...
...least of all the dining hall officials should look wide eyed or askance at this proposal, or feel the stabbings of false conscience. Science, the preachers tell us, can claim too much. A reasonable person cannot expect the food mentors to send Whitings a psychologist to tell when the cows feel contented, or when the outlook for the future sours up. Nobody knows what part of the cud is Cream. But an official taster, specifically selected for a sensitive palate and delicate taste, would not only provide an important mechanical function, that of keeping bad milk off the tables...
...decision was a wide one and objections to merging the Department still carry weight. However, the status of Sociology A remains unsettled. There is no reason why a concentrator in History, Government, or Economics should not find Sociology A more valuable than either of the present required elementary courses, or even determine that a sociology correlation is more desirable than any other. Such students, none the less, run afoul the somewhat insolent self-sufficiency of the "Holy Trinity". The inescapable conclusion is that the whole value of having this Division is questionable, if it means the practical exclusion of Sociology...
Attitudes, Dr. Allport says, have no cultural origins. But the cultural milieu exerts influences which account for wide variations. Thus defense of country was ranked at the top by some subjects, at the bottom by others, reflecting the conflict of nationalist and internationalist ideologies. When the Allport questionnaire was given to 106 Southerners at Duke University, it was observed that they differed from the Northern subjects in putting defense of family honor ahead of defense of country...