Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...build a modernistic capital on its site. 3) Preserve the tall-towered Kremlin and fantastic St. Basil's Cathedral, but destroy the whole encircling rabbit warren of crooked streets; enlarge the vast Red Square to twice its present size, and generally turn Moscow into a city of wide boulevards, imposing squares and grandiose parks...
...have launched an investigation of protective committees. They have secured injunctions, issued stop-orders and published hundreds of rules & regulations which for all practical purposes are laws of the land. And because they have behaved with sense and decency, they have so deflated their onetime critics that today their wide authority is seriously challenged nowhere in the land...
...Washington he cultivates perspective by living about 20 miles outside the city at Potomac, Md. There he leased a lane luxurious house commanding two wide sweeps of the Potomac River, occupies it with an old Boston friend, Edward E. Moore, who serves as his assistant. On the terraces ''Joe'' Kennedy plays the urbane host at small dinners famed throughout the Capital for the excellence of cave and cuisine. In the private cinema theatre he may later entertain friends like Senator Wheeler, Legalite Cohen, General Counsel Burns. In the mornings before breakfast he takes a dip, naked...
...referring [TIME, June 24], to the annual recurrence of infantile paralysis your statement regarding North Carolina would permit of a literal interpretation that the disease was State-wide in its coverage. To citizens of western North Carolina this statement, as well as like items in the daily press, is the subject of much concern. Were it true?we'd take it and like it. But, since it so happens that the number of cases of infantile paralysis in this area is below the average, and there are absolutely no indications of a spread, it would appear only right that...
...President for special mention last month but also plain millionaires, sub-millionaires, sub-sub-millionaires and possibly on down the line to ordinary people with an income of more than $5,000 per year. Thus what President Roosevelt started as a tax program to encourage "a wide distribution of wealth" began to take shape as a full-bodied revenue bill which would affect a majority of taxpayers...