Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...required some jubilation at Peary Lodge, Polar Year station midway up Greenland's west coast. University of Michigan & Pan American Airways maintain the post: 1) to cooperate with European agencies in studying world-wide weather conditions, 2) to determine whether the northern hemisphere is recovering from the last Ice Age or is beginning another Ice cycle, 3) to judge the wisdom of a northerly airplane service between the U. S. & Europe. University of Michigan's Ralph L. Belknap is in charge, with four able men helping. Feb. 3, according to a message relayed last week by wireless...
...narrow margin of one point the Jayvee swimming team nosed out the Freshmen in an informal meet yesterday afternoon. Starting slowly, the 1936 men won only one event before the dive in which they took the first two places by wide margins. With this as an inspiration they won the Medley Relay making the score 30-29 with the Junior Varsity still ahead. In the 200-yard relay J. M. Timken '36 and G. D. Winsor '34, anchor men, swam a dead heat, giving each side three points. The final score was Jayvees 33, Freshmen...
...final analysis, be under the control of the masters. As at present, they must have power to name the librarians and assistants, to exercise authority through their library committees over the apportionment of books to various departments, to superintend, generally, the regulations which conduct the libraries' use. These wide powers are necessary if there is to be even the slightest pretense of House autonomy...
...character is in strange contrast to the feverish managerial gibberings which have attended his death. The field is wide open for trenchant innuendo. His handlers had little to win, much to lose by a victory over Carnera. He was allowed to enter the ring after a brief training period of ten days which followed all attack of influenza. The association of these two facts admittedly proves nothing; according to medical advices it had nothing to do with the boxer's death. But it focuses an ugly light on the managerial claim, that "He had to die to prove he wasn...
...both these matters there still appear to be wide, and somewhat discouraging, differences of opinion...