Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual show of the Pekingese Club of America the little dogs which peered out from wicker or glass cases strikingly resembled their fabled ancestors. There were the tawny coats, the pendulous ears, the wide chest and narrow hips of the lion. No imagination strain was needed to detect a simian likeness in their bright, popping eyes and bashed-in noses...
...Agriculture. ¶ Professors and other officials at the University of Kentucky have not drawn more than half-pay for months. ¶ In Pittsburgh public men and civic organizations mobilized to combat a proposal to make the school board elective instead of, as at present, appointive. ¶ A nation-wide survey of school finance under the auspices of the U. S. Office of Education last week found that 9,500,000 children in the nation are deprived of proper education...
...waves of bank failures that have periodically swept wide areas of the land since the Depression have washed harmlessly around northern California. In contrast with Illinois' 207 bank closings last year, Iowa's 150, Michigan's 86, California boasted a lean 32. Last week a wave skittered down California's sun-drenched Sacramento Valley, toppled over Woodland's Bank of Yolo with $2.500,000 in resources, washed away Esparto's Bank of Esparto, struck down the two biggest independent banks in the State Capital, the California National of Sacramento and the California Trust & Savings...
...place, now called Istakhr, is near Shiraz inland from the Persian Gulf. Darius planed the face of a mountain for grey building stone. Against the mountain base he built a terraced platform, 1,000 ft. wide, a third of a mile long and upon it started to build palaces. His descendants continued construction-Nerxes 485-465 B. C.), Artaxerxes...
...main. There are 24 different sets of rules, all derived from the Old Royal Pit Rules of England. Usually the pit is a platform about 20 feet in diameter, covered with tanbark, matting or carpet. The birds are put together, beak to beak, in a chalk ring a yard wide at the centre. A rail around the edge of the pit keeps them from falling out but a "squawker'' or a "runner'' can jump the rail if he feels inclined. Fighting cocks wear over their natural spurs either "gaffs"-fine-pointed needles...