Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...around with an interpreter. Two Guns made friends with James Jerome Hill's son Louis, now director of Great Northern. The grateful Great Northern hired Two Guns, along with such of his compatriots as Owen Heavy Breast, George Bull Child and Mike Short Man, sent him far & wide through the country as a living representative of the Great West-as-it-could-be-found-along-the-Great Northern. Two Guns won further fame when in 1913 the buffalo nickel was minted, for he was touted as the original of its Indian head. James Earle Eraser, who designed the nickel...
...blue-cowled die-hards were the Brothers El Hiba and Merebbi Rebbo Mehammedan of the south, sometimes called "The Blue Sultan,"* sometimes "The Saint." Nabbed in 1917 by the French, El Hiba passed his baton on to Brother Merebbi. For 16 years Merebbi's home has been the wide Moroccan Desert and the passes of the Atlas Mountains. By day he has worn dust on his tongue, sand in his eyes, and in his heart the resolve to wrest Morocco from the Christians. Last week a leather-skinned man stalked into the Spanish garrison at Cape Jubion the coast...
...Harvard indifference fairly stole Mother Advocate's bustle, and in a soft, artistic way, other pundits refined the dross from the Graduate's Magazine. The editors were not lacking in brilliance, but, are gratia artis, they eschewed such fundamental principles of journalism as might have gained them a wide and interested public. Journalism curdled their aesthetics, and the Parnassine fluid of their though became distillate to the point of dullness...
...compete transformation of American life, President Eliot's guiding genius developed Harvard in accordance with the most advanced theories of education. The College grow from a school of some six hundred undergraduates with a limited field of study, to an institution of some three thousand men with a wide choice of elective studies. The Graduate School was provided with excellent facilities for instruction and research, and the professional schools were developed to train men in the theory as well as in the practice of their professions. The Harvard Law School, with the lengthening of the term to three years...
Eschewing modern or mechanistic design, Architect Iofan drew a Romanesque pyramid of six fluted, concentric cylinders which together form a pedestal for a 260-ft. statue of Nicolai Lenin, with his face turned to his own tomb on the Red Square. Steps 492 ft. wide lead from the street up to a colonnaded arcade opening into the amphitheatres with back-to-back stages. The larger, which will be decorated with a mammoth panorama of the Revolution, seats 20,000; the smaller 6,000. Escalators go up to a library which will hold 500,000 books, a maze of museums, foyers...