Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perspective of what the political system of the United States really is. The article in this month's issue handles the prep schools roughly in several places, as it is well it should, but in gloomily comparing them to the English institutions of their class Fortune wilfully ignores the wide gulf between the characters of the two countries...
After four years of steady growth under Mr. Watt's determined leadership, the Experiment in International Living has attained nation-wide recognition as a constructive medium for effecting a rapprochement of the youth of different nations with a view to cementing the ties of International understanding...
...Added incentive to action was the announcement that, for the first time, the U. S. will pick an Olympic team to vie with Uruguayans, Bulgarians, Turks and other basketeers next summer. Best explanation for the enthusiasm was the loud-mouthed rivalry between the Midwest's zone defense and wide-open play, the East's man-for-man defense and more cautious offense...
...some other life. Throughout the many scenes Trudi Schoop was the picture of bewilderment, a small pathetic figure in a black sleeveless tunic, an absurd clerical hat. Her pantomime was always effective. She danced occasionally but she was just as communicative standing still. She spoke with her eyes, her wide childish grin, her expressive hands. European critics have likened her to Charlie Chaplin and the great Swiss Clown Crock. Though the comparison scarcely seemed warranted last week, she did prove herself a rare entertainer...
...died quietly in his bed of the uremia from which he suffered for many a month. With his General's cap and all his medals beside him, they laid him out in the village church at Maracay. All night long barefoot peasants shuffled past, their black eyes wide with wonder. In his lifetime canny Dictator Gomez made much of the fact that he was born on July 24, a holiday celebrated throughout South America as the birthday of the Liberator, Simon Bolivar. The day and hour of his death last week were reported to have coincided with those...