Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side of the room, a sight they had not seen in months. On easels near the back, newly mounted, freshly painted, stood a 6-ft. sailfish, last observed by the Press when the President landed it off Cocos Island in October. Nearer the front of the room doors were wide open to Franklin Roosevelt's fourth spring in the White House...
...down the Eli skaters who have already been defeated several times. One of the defeats came at the hands of St. Paul's after a close game which was decided by a single tally. The Crimson pucksters, on the other hand, trounced the schoolboys 5-1 in a wide open game...
...great-hipped, heavy-stomached Venus lies on a violet couch while a Cupid crowns her with flowers, and a boyish nobleman serenades her with a lute. The paint job is superb, the composition dramatic. Credited with being the first intimations of 18th Century Impressionism are the blue mountains, the wide vague plain in the background...
Most plausible Josefowitz biography said that the family was originally neither Lithuanian nor Swiss but Russian. They were said to have engaged in a wide-scale business of discounting Soviet bills. From 1924 to 1931 U. S. exports to Russia totaled about $600,000,000. These purchases were handled through Amtorg Trading Corp., the Soviet purchasing agency in Manhattan. Amtorg paid some cash, gave notes for the greater part of the Soviet obligations. Many a U. S. industrialist, suspicious of Soviet credit, was willing to sell his Soviet notes at a large discount. The Josefowitz', confident that Russia would...
...slim, wide-mouthed young man named Paul Redfern took off from Brunswick, Ga. to fly to Brazil. Some 27 hours later Pilot Redfern's single-motored monoplane swooped down over the Norwegian freighter Christian Krohg 200 miles out of La Guaira, Venezuela. Getting his bearings, Redfern dashed on toward South America, where he was later reported over the Orinoco Delta. Then he vanished...