Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Starting off strong, the Freshmen struck first in the initial period, when Tim Reardon, fleet halfback, broke loose off right tackle and dashed 25 yards to score standing up. John Nesmith's kick for the extra point sailed wide of the uprights. The yearlings increased their lead by three points in the second period when George Roberts placekicked a beautiful field-goal from the 25-yard stripe...
...little after 11.15 where a tasty lunch was spread, for them, prepared as only Mr. Waistcoat can. Delicious hot steaks were set appetizingly out in long platters, garnished with quaint sprigs of parsley. On the attractively decorated table were set large bowls of Raspberry jam, out of which peeped wide eyed little seeds. The steaming hot toast out of the big Union ovens came in and was eagerly devoured by the hungry horde of football fighters...
Senator Robert M. LaFollette, Jr., led his opponents by a wide margin in early scattered returns from one third of the state's 171 counties tonight...
...earthquake victims the entire resources of his railroad empire. That done, his next purpose was to get back to New York in a hurry. He ordered out Union Pacific's fastest equipment, got on a private train with his secretary, told the engineer to "open her up wide." The Harriman Special steamed into Manhattan with a coast-to-coast record of 71 hr. 27 min. Last week Railroader Harriman's 28-year-old transcontinental record was at last smashed and the smasher was none other than Mr. Harriman's lean and able son William Averell...
...envoy of George V publicly urged that the dollar and the pound be pegged together, no doubt would exist that His Majesty's Government desired such stabilization. If one of Benito Mussolini's Undersecretaries of State called upon nations to create a World-wide Planned Economic Order, Il Duce's stand would be clear. Last week, however, White House correspondents could not get the President to say Yes-or-No when they asked if he approved proposals for monetary stabilization and world planning solemnly made in Europe by men whose duty was to keep silent if they...