Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent survey by two Philadelphia newspapers shows the unreliability of straw votes. One paper's results gave the victory to Hoover. The other showed a wide margin in favor of the Democratic candidates. Both papers had subscriptions among the same classes of people...
Carving a wide white scar up & down Detroit's Lake St. Clair one morning last week roared brown-hulled Miss America X, her four Packard motors tuning up within 200 r. p. m. of their maximum 2,700. Timers clocked the flying wedge of smoke and spray at an average of 124.91 m. p. h. for two statute miles-a new world's record, 5.16 m. p. h. faster than Kaye Don's time in Miss England III last spring on Loch Lomond. Climbing out of his boat, the old silver fox of U. S.-speed-boating...
...latter claim, and the demand for return to government by party responsibility that justly deserve closest attention. Last fall an anxious nation placed the present ministry in power for the sole purpose of presenting a strong, non-partisan front to the imminent national financial difficulties attendant on a world-wide depression. It can no longer be reasonably maintained that that crisis is not past. But the Prime Minister justifies his continuation in office by indicating the need for a similar unified government in face of the pressing international problems of reparations, disarmament, and currency...
Canadian Home Journal (circulation: 153,393*) is the Canadian Ladies' Home Journal. Its founder, the late Harry C. Gagnier, also possessed the Toronto Saturday Night, the Dominion's best known financial newspaper, and a wide reputation for being a hard man to beat in a deal. The Gagnier properties are now directed by the founder's good friend and onetime secretary Miss M. R. Sutton...
...intelligentsiacs who pride themselves on not being softies, has built himself into that rare phenomenon of a popular author who is spoken well of by the critics. His last novel, A Farewell to Arms, received both Hollywood and high-brow huzzas. His latest book, not aimed at so wide an audience, may alienate many of his new disciples, but it is a genuinely Hemingway production. Death in the Afternoon is all about bullfighting: a complete, compendious, appreciative guide. If you have never seen a bullfight Death in the Afternoon may not turn you into an aficionado (fan), but it should...