Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kissam II, were in the southern U. S., but her daughter Consuelo, one-time pawn of her most amazing social gambit, was there. Outside in the Rue Monsieur the dove-colored Paris dawn was brightening. The old lady, appearing to suffer no pain, lay comatose. But on her square, wide-mouthed face there was a look of concentration, as though, desperately pressed for time, she must reconsider, revalue the countless acts and decisions of her extraordinary lifetime. Suddenly, at 6:50 a. m., her features relaxed...
...periophthalus (eyewinker) is a pop-eyed dweller along Eastern shores. At a distance it looks like a big tadpole. It has well-developed eyelids which wink. Powerful muscles enable it to use its pectoral fins like arms in hoisting itself a little way up wide-based tropical trees. When the periophthalus wishes to it can lift the front part of its body with these fins, gaze solemnly around, blinking like a dowager basking on her elbows at the beach...
Last week railroad men opened their eyes wide at the announcement that Loree's D. & H. had bought 500,000 shares of New York Central-the full 10% of shares outstanding which it could buy without permission from the New York Public Service Commission-and at the report that L. F. Loree's friends had acquired another 500,000 shares. With a 20% command, the 74-year-old fighter was in a fair way to dominate one of the biggest rail systems in the land...
...than those who had studied from their text-books. That a comparison was not made between results of college students who had seen lecture table experiments and those who had viewed the same experiments in a moving picture is regrettable; for there is reason to believe that a more wide-spread use of films in certain courses would be advantageous...
Stopping at the larger cities of the United States in its nation-wide publicity campaign, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer trackless train, which has taken two years to construct and which contains a complete motion picture studio and sound equipment projector "on wheels," will come to Harvard Square this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock...