Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Union upholds and "wishes to see preserved" wide latitude to administrative officials in the appointment and advancement of teachers...
...Another quality that distinguishes the Dictatorship of Mussolini is his exceptionally wide knowledge of science and philosophy. . . . There are some people too vain to seek advice; Mussolini seeks it wherever it may be found, and therefore fulfills Richelieu's condition of wisdom and character in a statesman. . . . He is the world's most accomplished plagiarist...
Depression caught Mr. Dole between two fires. First, there was a tremendous overproduction in California fruit, especially peaches. Pineapples cost more than peaches but cannot maintain sales if the price differential becomes too wide. Thus, as the peach price level crashed, pineapple prices slumped also. Second, Mr. Dole could do nothing to cut pineapple production, because it takes about two years to grow a pineapple and Mr. Dole was reaping in 1932 as he had sown in 1930. Result: unmarketable pineapples piled up in Mr. Dole's factory, their stench polluting the Hawaiian air. Further result: pineapples dropped from...
Fearing that a quick,, highpoint summary for advertising purposes would leave them wide open to sue-or-settle shysters, bankers clung to the "tombstone" (matter-of-record) announcement. Meantime they asked SEC for better definitions. Last week for the first, time since the Securities Act became effective, an advertisement for a new issue appeared in the oldtime form of a one-page prospectus. The firm that plunged with an offering of $45,000,000 Illinois Bell Telephone bonds was Morgan Stanley & Co., underwriting offshoot of the House of Morgan. Meticulously the Morgan advertisement referred readers to the offering prospectus...
...Hatter was surprised at Alice's ignorance and opened his eyes very wide; but all he said...