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Word: wideness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suit, the public may be deprived of a life-saving apparatus considered by competent authorities to be better than the "Drinker Respirator" and selling at a price $500.00 lower. It is because the case is so clear as a test of the principles involved that it is attracting wide attention. David L. Garrison...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Medical Ethics | 10/28/1932 | See Source »

...been misled by Democratic propaganda. She shows other virtues, in failing miserably to make plausible an implausible scene of the crippled showgirl who gives it all up to go home, in giving an impersonation of Greta Garbo as the more intelligent critics see that Swedish mockingbird, and by spreading wide her amazing eyes at the proper moments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PAYGOER | 10/25/1932 | See Source »

...nation-wide crime wave, lashed into destructive fury by the power of gangland born of a monstrous legal blunder, has created such a demand for severity in law enforcement that there has grown with that demand a laxity in observance by law officers of those rights which it is fatal to ignore, even though that ignoring results in the entrapment of the guilty." Lawyer Lilleston of Kansas was the comic relief. He called himself "the forgotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Witnesses in Washington | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

There, surely, was a newspicture of the month; but not for the august Times, which printed a stodgy shot of the Columbus Circle speechmakers. Through its .Wide World syndicate the Times offered exclusive morning paper rights to the print, sold it to the tabloid Daily News for $30. Evening rights went to Hearst's Jour nal which five-columned it beneath the caption: "The Camera Sees Love. Drama. Crime, Tragedy and Probable Death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Love, Drama, Crime . . . | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

...south side of the Rock are vineyards, whose owners use the caves to store their wine tuns. Something in one of the cellars attracted Dr. Maiuri's attention. He picked at a wall, found that it blocked a trapezium-shaped passageway 20 ft. high, 10 ft. wide at the bottom, 40 ft. long. Lateral tunnels led to the sheer face of the Cumaean Rock. The tunnels admitted light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sibylline Cellar | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

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