Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thomas J. Curtin '34, fighting from behind in the opening bout of the evening, managed to overcome the lead taken by Newman, the Yale 115-pounder in the first round and at the end of the scrap the Harvard boxer had won the decision by a wide margin. After the opening win by Curtin that put the Crimson in the lead, Yale took the 125-pound class with Gardner getting the decision over Captain Marshall A. Lamb...
Chairman of the International Committee on Atomic Weights. Professor Baxter has achieved wide fame for his revision of atomic weights, measurements on densities of gases and liquids...
...announcement of the Government Department's new non-credit courses marks an important development of the present educational trend from note-talking to tutorial discussion. The gap between the tutor and the classes of his tutee has been inevitably wide in the past, and these lectures, dealing with broad topics, knitting together many aspects of the field, may supply the necessary coherence...
...where Professor Salvemini teaches Italian literature. He is one of a fairly numerous class of foreign scholars who have been cast out from their own country by the rise of dictatorship and have found a refuge in American universities and colleges. This will confirm the opinion long held in wide circles that our colleges are only stagnant back-waters in the rapid flow of modern life, dedicated as ever to obsolete faiths and lost causes. They cling, for instance, to the outworn notion of liberty and give shelter to thinkers and scholars whom the iron broom of Mussolini, Stalin...
...races will be run on a new track which has been installed in the Madison Square Garden. The track, twenty-seven feet wide, is divided into two sections. The outer section is 160 meters around and has four lanes; the inner one is 133.33 meters with five lanes. All the distance races will be started on the inner track, and after a lap the runners will be shunted onto the outer track. Between the two tracks there is a broad white line. If a runner on the outside track steps on the line he is automatically disqualified. The curves...