Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chairman of the meeting the Earl of Derby, close friend of King George, made what many considered a tactful allusion to world-wide indignation aroused by the impression that His Majesty's Government and perhaps His Majesty, as well, favor making peace by dismembering Ethiopia. Rumbled Derby: "The more people who come to this country to see us as we are and not as we are painted, the better it will be for the peace of the world and the easier for our diplomats and politicians to keep peace...
...importance of this phase of research and training. "It is indicative of the significance which the traffic problem has assumed in American life and of the advances which have been made in developing technique for the reduction of traffic accidents and of congestion. There is now a wide demand throughout the United States both in government and in private organizations for the services of men who are thoroughly trained in methods in this field...
...bought in Moscow for his wife. Individual Stakhanovites all receive fabulously high pay -the question suspiciously asked by Soviet workers being how long such exaggerated wages will be paid after any great number of workers have been induced to speed up. Afraid that "Stakhanovism" is in fact a continent-wide swindle of the proletariat by their Soviet bosses, spunky Russian workers, like spunky Russian kulaks before them, have started shooting...
Most appealing to moderns is the great King Oguola, traditionally fourth king of the Bini. Since his people were rich and peaceable and his slaves had little to do, he sent 20,000 of them into the forest to dig a ditch about 40 feet wide, 20 feet deep. "Not for war," explained King Oguola. "But when I die and people say 'Who was Oguola?' they will hear 'he was the King that dug the Big Ditch...
...Finland. Sibelius, at 70, lives in a rambling country house in Jarvenpaa, some 30 miles from Helsinki. There he begins each day by dousing his head in a bucket of icy water. There he entertains many a visitor, fills them with good wine, converses intelligently on a wide range of subjects, refuses admittance to his upstairs study where he makes his music...