Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...often say in private. Yet last week in the Japanese Parliament, sturdy old Premier Admiral Okada was put sternly on the record. Did he or did he not, demanded Baron Kiyozumi Inouye, hold with Japan's eminent Constitutional authority Dr. Tatsuki Minobe who has just created a nation-wide furor by alluding to the Son-of-Heaven as "an organ of the Constitution...
...Opera House seemed haunted. Over the boxes hovered the ghosts of the old New Yorkers who in 1883 built the Metropolitan, established it as Society's showplace. Great singers long dead seemed to have gathered in the wings as a reminder that the Metropolitan owed them its world-wide prestige. In the corridors it was easy to imagine the small erect figure of Otto Hermann Kahn, carnation in buttonhole, a quick shrewd word for everyone. No ghost was big Giulio Gatti-Casazza, for 27 years the Metropolitan's general manager. But Gatti's regime ends next month...
...white, nonmetallic mineral is gypsum. It has been used as a building material throughout history. In raw form its principal use is as a retarder in cement, preventing it from setting too rapidly. It is also in wide industrial demand as a flux in smelting, as ''mineral white" or "terra alba'' in the paper, textile and paint trades. Blackboard chalk is raw, powdered gypsum molded with a binding substance. Pure gypsum is alabaster...
Tuesday's CRIMSON mentioned the Peace Strike to be held April 12 and the Armastice (sic) Day Anti-War Conference Continuations Committee, which is directing the strike in colleges of this region. To avoid possible misunderstanding, I wish to name the organizations which issued the call for the nation-wide strike and also the groups which have delegates on the Continuations Committee. The national sponsors are: American Youth Congress, National Council of Methodist Youth, Inter-Seminary Movement (Middle Atlantic Division), Student League for Industrial Democracy, and National Student League. The committee consists of representatives of the following: Young People...
...leading article of Thursday morning's edition, plans for a college-wide anti-war "strike" to be held here this year on April 12, will be outlined. Initial preparations for the demonstration were made last Saturday at a meeting of the Continuations Committee of the Boston Regional Peace Conference, which met here last Armistice...