Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flung Huey, football forecaster extraordinary, has had a remarkable career, both in his country and in China. Known far and wide throughout the Orient for his ability as a seer, and as a natural wit, as well as being titular head of the Hu dynasty, he was brought to Harvard by error during the administration of President Lowell. In 1925 Mr. Lowell was frantic for a good halfback, and as all domestic material had been bought up by Yale, Princeton and Notre Dame, he extended his search to the Orient. His demands for a good punter were misinterpreted to mean...
...imperialism of Great Britain. Many authorities are ready to ascribe the World War in large part to British determination to crush a challenging rival to naval supremacy. And certainly more authorities of the future will ascribe today's row, whether it end in increased tension or world-wide catastrophe, to British determination to guard her dominions from an enterprising upstart...
...convinced him that it is Death to go on as Premier. Mr. Hepburn was said to be in acute pain last week, unable to sleep nights. His whirlwind swing around the entire Dominion during the General Election (TIME, Oct. 21) which made him for the first time a continent-wide figure, also overstrained his kidney. And Mitch believed last week that he faces angina pectoris. After the first shock of amazement, Ontario did not quite believe that its Premier will in fact resign after the legislative session next spring, as he is now resolved to do. He sped south...
...commonly expressed in public, possesses a modest historical importance for its reflection of current reactions to forgotten hits of the theatre, forgotten bestsellers among the novels, forgotten celebrities and scandals. Although brief readings of it give the impression that the author has richly enjoyed his tennis, his wide and indiscriminate reading, his association with the tight little group of egocentric characters who think they do New York's journalistic thinking, a more attentive study reveals such a monotony and superficiality of life as to give a cumulative effect of oppressive tedium. And a reader who followed the modern Pepys...
...these young men did a wonderful job under extremely adverse circumstances. Living as we did in the interior of China, the mails from home were looked forward to with the greatest impatience. I think that every member of the group was a subscriber to TIME because of the wide field of information which you publish. May I congratulate you upon the real knowledge and pleasure that you give Americans who are out of touch with things going on in the active world...