Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fraser is only 43. By training a lawyer, he has never worked in a bank which received or paid out cash. At Basle they send and receive cablegrams and telegrams transferring millions and hundreds of millions, on paper. Often a telephone call suffices. In their safe, some two feet wide by four high, they keep as a solemn joke two coins, a tiny 25? California gold piece (genuine) and a reputed Spanish sovereign (counterfeit). The important thing is that since the B. I. S. was founded in 1930 it has slowly become "The Central Bank of Central Banks": The World...
...Manchuria in which they have treaty rights to be, namely, the narrow South Manchuria Railway Zone running down to Dairen & Port Arthur in Japan's Kwantung Leased Territory; 2) "the Assembly recommends the establishment in Manchuria ... of an organization under the sovereignty ... of China" but with "a wide measure of autonomy ... in harmony with local conditions." This organization should police Manchuria with "an efficient gendarmerie," yet to be created; 3) "the Assembly recommends the opening of negotiations between the two parties" [China & Japan] and invites each to accept the Assembly's recommendations in toto "subject to the sole...
...showed evening gowns with a zipper down the front from neck to hem "for moonlight bathing." Ruffling through their notebooks, buyers reported the following definite trends for 1933 summer fashions: ¶ Waists will be lower, lines will be definitely straighter and looser. Sleeves are moderately full, shoulders continue high, wide & handsome. The dramatic Elsa Schiaparelli shows Japanese sleeves with artificial shoulder stiffening. Dress lines will accent the vertical this year...
...Explained Dr. Philip Gootenberg, president of New Jersey's Consolidated Sportsmen: "The dogs made fools of us. They are smarter than wolves. When we retraced our path we found the snow broken with prints. They had been following us. One pad print was more than three inches wide...
...H.A.A.'s effusion is apparently an answer to the editorial in this column on February 15 entitled "Breaking Training." The complacent content with worn out platitudes merely substantiates the CRIMSON's view that there is a wide divergence of opinion on this matter between officials and undergraduates. In the last five years the student has come to regard any sort of college athletics as individual exercise, and the training rules as a guide to his own conscience and physical development. This attitude is not subject to debate; it is a fact. There is sufficient evidence to prove moreover, that student...