Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suppose this criticism was answered in a similar vein. One might say here is a mayor caught in a ticklish, political situation. He knows that, in addition to the ancient hostility of the town to the gown, there has been growing up a rather wide-spread resentment in Cambridge be the antics of a few New Era professors, and that he is very likely to be the recipient in the coming election of many a vocal brickbat aimed at the subrosa employment of these Messiahs. He well knows that his irrelevant answer to your editorial will be considered...
...Negroes have served on grand and petty juries in Virginia since early reconstruction days when a Buckingham County sheriff was fined for refusing to summon negroes on juries. In practice, however, the State-wide selection of Negroes is the exception, not the rule...
...Teagle and Sococal's Kingsbury gave no explanation, but it was an open secret that the immediate cause was failure to agree on terms. Oil men thought, however, that a more potent reason for abandoning the deal was the question of price-fixing, which had not only split wide open the oil industry but the happy Standard family as well. Mr. Teagle is price-fixing's ablest and loudest foe. Mr. Kingsbury is one of the Administration's heartiest supporters...
...Steeplejack" has not found out what should be done, but in its three issues so far it has achieved a campus following which gives it potential strength. It is frankly a journal of controversy, written by a wide variety of student minds:--football Deke presidents, solitary artists, staff-writers drawn from other publications, resurgent professors,--big-shots, and men left cold by the activities rush. Its headlines try to talk out in local terms, without any coating of whited sepulchre-Sunday magazine titles or vague, pretty wordings...
...November issue of Forum is an exceptionally good one; everything considered, it is better than any of this month's samples of the other magazines in its class, abounding as it does in pertinent articles, and covering enough territory to interest a wide circle, or to give a definite circle a broad field for thought. In short, it attains the end in view of the "intellectual magazines," and does so gracefully...