Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...object of the Department of Military Science and Tactics to give ROTC students practice with this set of guns, in order that they may become acquainted with the use of the panoramic sight and gun squad work under almost actual conditions. While the pieces have a wide range of dispersion, due to the cylindrical contour of the projectile, it is nevertheless possible to hit a "house" three inches high at a distance of 75 yards...
...Papa Doumergue has gone the nation's gratitude for maintaining the Republic against internal discord, to Louis Barthou has gone wide-eyed admiration for spectacularly advancing in a few brief months, the diplomatic position of France. Early this week, as he welcomed to France a Balkan King with whom he was about to make a crucial deal, an assassin shooting at the King brought Death...
...Dominion burned with rumors?that the Canadian Wheat Pool had withdrawn support; that the Pool was liquidating; that the Government was about to take over the Winnipeg Exchange. All this having been denied, the market steadied. But loud were the cries from the Prairie Provinces, demanding a world-wide investigation and if not that then a crackling short-selling probe...
Author Russell translates into plain English many a little-known name and cloudily-understood theory?the Benthamites and other English philosophical radicals, Marx, dialectical materialism, surplus value. In the wide conclusion he draws from his wide subject he considers nothing so parochial as a U. S. New Deal. But in his capacity as observer he reports that economic nationalism is the order of the day. "Organization to the utmost within the State, freedom without limit in the relations between States." Only international organization will save the world from calamity. "The same causes that produced war in 1914 are still operative...
...trial stimulates interest in the Debating Council, it will have served its purpose, and if the Council adheres to its new policy of handling material of world-wide rather than purely academic interest, debating at Harvard may yet assume the proportions it deserves...