Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years lowans have complacently accepted Sioux City, wide-open river town as something of a black sheep on the edge of their fold. Verne Marshall, crusading editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette, did not object to Sioux Citizens having their gambling and highballs, but his nostrils quivered at the smell of bargaining between lawbreakers and officials. After a legislative investigation which resulted in the conviction of State Liquor Commission Chairman Harold M. Cooper for disposing illegally of State liquor seals. Editor Marshall early this year prodded Woodbury County (Sioux City) into a grand jury investigation...
...trench, twelve feet long and six feet wide in good British soil at Carshalton, Surrey, workmen last week laid a ton of firewood and over that a wagonload of burnt oak and charcoal. This pyre was drenched with ten gallons of kerosene and ignited. When it had burned for eight hours and a wind had fanned the embers almost to white heat a scrawny young Hindu named Kuda Bux and a group of respectable-looking Britons appeared. Kuda Bux had promised that by faith he would walk barefooted across the glowing...
...been more than a year since Professor Samuels was last seen in these parts--not since his rather hectic career as proprietor of a book store at 30a Boylston Street, three feet wide and many leagues deep. Then came that fateful day when a sudden visit by the constabulary, who unfortunately seemed to be free from any interest in Bacon's dramatic talent, resulted in the prompt exit of Samuels...
...last week the factional split between Democratic friends & foes of St. Louis' Mayor Bernard F. ("Barney") Dickmann had resulted in nothing more than bad blood, hot words. Last week both sides got their dander up over a city-wide poll on a $7,500,000 bond issue to build a memorial to Thomas Jefferson beside the Mississippi. Following day City Market Master James O. Stubbs and State Representative Lawrence J. Fontana, both Dickmann men, marched with two friends into the office of City Recorder of Deeds John P. English, head of the anti-Dickmann faction...
Polar Power. In Adelie Land, Antarctica, a howling river of "wind, 50 miles wide, blows off the plateau, month in & month out, at an average velocity of 50 m.p.h. As a source of power this compares favorably with 6,000 tons of water falling every second over Niagara Falls. "I will not further anticipate some H. G. Wells of the future who will ring the antarctic with power-producing windmills; but the winds of the Antarctic have to be felt to be believed, and nothing is quite impossible to physicists and engineers," declared Professor Frank Debenham of Cambridge, president...