Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Washington Bicentennial Commission, offered to bet 20-to-1 that Johnson could not fulfill the legend. When Fredericksburg citizens raised $5,000 to make the bet, Representative Bloom cabled to the British Public Record Office which cabled back that contemporary maps showed the Rappahannock, now 272 ft. wide, was 1,427 ft. wide...
...Harvard M. A. With Dr. Colwell, Abraham Flexner visited U. S. medical schools, U. S. clinics, studied the by-laws of the state medical boards which licensed new practitioners. His findings he presented incisively in Medical Education the United States & Canada, which was published in 1910, had a wide sale and an even wider influence, shocked the U. S. public into a realization that the education of medical students was a matter of public concern...
...kind of rebuttal campaigning like the Smith-Robinson speeches and the proposed Communist vs. Capitalist arguments of Earl Browder and Hamilton Fish, Jr. political bally-hoo is soon likely to be tempered by more intelligent debates. Ready access to the microphone, its far-reaching power and its nation-wide publicity, make calling an opponent's false cards relatively easy and highly effective. Such suggestions as Owen D. Young made the other day at Rollins College, urging more temperate speech and restraint of campaign hyperbole, may become tactical necessities to future politicians...
...editorial in this morning's "Crimson" on the Harvard Student Union is to be commended for stressing the one justification for its formation, the one condition upon which it can survive. If it is to be non-denominational, if it is to embrace students of a wide variety of political beliefs, it can not be an organization with specific aims towards which to work, but must rather be a forum in which conflicting beliefs are not advanced in defiance of others but in which they are considered together with patience and open-minded intelligence. Such an objective will...
Cards both ancient and modern, coming from almost all the countries of the civilized world, are included in the bequest. The largest, of American make, measures 12 inches high by 8 inches wide; the smallest, coming from Switzerland, is only one-half by three-quarters of an inch. A unique item is a pack of modern round cards, which the manufacturer asserts are waterproof...