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Word: wideness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day Springfielders gaped at the most amazing papers they had ever seen. The Republican and Union were printed in typewriting (see cut). Only the conventional banner designs distinguished the two front pages, each set in four wide columns containing two dozen short items. Here and there the eight-page sheets were broken with real type of advertisements already set up, with comic strips or stereotyped features. Evening editions came out in the same form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Springfield Surprise | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

Happy is it indeed that the wide comment occasioned by the hanging of this portrait of a Harvard graduate, painted by a Harvard graduate, and presented by a Harvard graduate, should be almost unanimously in praise of its acceptance by the University. As the Boston Herald puts it in an editorial quoted elsewhere in full in this issue. "A university as large as Harvard, with graduates scattered throughout the world and attached to all manner of political religions, and economic causes, cannot draw strict lines as to whom it will and will not cherish," on any basis of dogma...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOHN REED | 5/24/1935 | See Source »

...thinks that a big debt is a good thing for a company because it makes everyone work harder but he saw no reason for paying 5% for nearly $40,000,000 of borrowed money when he could pay 4%. Moreover, he was planning for his Detroit plant a new wide strip sheet mill, which is an appallingly expensive aggregation of machinery. Upshot was that by December Steelman Weir and his two top executives frequently darkened the Kuhn, Loeb doors. With some inaccuracy, they were called "the three wisemen of Weirton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Kuhn, Loeb at Work | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

...Poem 44, for which Author Cummings does not seek wide circulation but which he wishes to ''exist for posterity." will appear only in the holograph edition (limited to nine copies at $99 each) wherein Mr. Cummings will write it in longhand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Buzzard of Is | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

...Introduction: In all chemistry courses it has been found that a student, working carefully, is unable to accomplish the required amount of laboratory work in the allotted time. The following figures testify to the wide gap that exists: Stated Required Time Necessary Time for Careful Work Chem. A 3 hrs. 3 1/2-4 hrs. Chem. B 3 hrs. 5 hrs. Chem. 33 Not stated 3 1/2-4...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Text of Freshman Committee's Report Which Suggests Many Improvements to Help First Year Men Through Critical Period | 5/17/1935 | See Source »

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