Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federation of Teachers is a nation-wide organization whose belief is "in democracy, and in the schools as the chief agency of democracy." The preamble of its constitution states that, "we believe that the schools have failed of their fullest attainment because of undemocratic administration. . . that servility breeds servility, and that if the schools are to produce free, unafraid men, American citizens of the highest type, the teachers must live and work in an atmosphere of freedom and self-respect...
...Fuller, who turned it over to Elmer Kenerson, New London's husky Superintendent of Parks. An animal-lover who knew something about veterinary science, Elmer Kenerson set the big bird's pinion, named it "Uncle Sam," built it a wooden cage 30 ft. high and 20 ft. wide around a tree in New London's wildish Riverside Park beside the Thames River. For 28 years Uncle Sam perched morosely in his tree while he and Elmer Kenerson grew old. Even after his job as park superintendent was abolished in 1925, the man took stale meat...
Parking in the wide spaces of the triangle's highway, where last year enormous laundry tricks passed safely between rows of shining Cadillacs, Packards, and Old Fords, without committing a feather's scratch, seems preferable to parking on the narrow public road a block to the North...
...Hatter was ever ready for an argument and on hearing this opened his eyes very wide. Then, with a scholarly nonchalance...
Precisely where Edwin Dodge fitted into this strange life is by no means clear, since at critical moments in the narrative he seems always to have been in the U. S. Hospitable, inquisitive, wide-eyed, awed by the glamour of European reputations and European love affairs, Mabel Dodge was often irritated by her husband's "inferior sophistication," his Boston facetiousness, his lack of respect for famed visitors, as well as by his occasional puritanical insistence that certain forms of nonsense stop...