Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest on the sloping bank of a small lake, with a minimum of excavation-a balanced set of simple building-masses rimmed by open terraces. The interior gracefully conformed to requirements with: 1) a stage adaptable to every kind of entertainment, 2) ample dressing and property rooms, 3) wide aisles and plenty of leg room, 4) full visibility and sound acoustics, 5) an art gallery in the lobby for leg-and-neck-stretching between acts...
Commodore Perry got his foot in, but it was Townsend Harris who opened the door of Japan wide enough to let the traders in. Who Townsend Harris was, few U. S. citizens know. But he is a hero in Japan; his two residences-the consulate at Shimoda and the legation at Tokyo are preserved as shrines. The first U. S. Consul General to Japan, Townsend Harris in 1858 negotiated the first effective commercial treaty between the U. S. and Japan-a feat which historians have ranked with the world's leading diplomatic successes...
Since October 1, 1938, when Newspaper Guildsmen walked out on city-wide strike, no daily newspaper has been published in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., a coal-mining and silk-weaving city whose retail stores serve about 300,000 persons. Deprived of their No. 1 advertising medium, the five biggest Wilkes-Barre stores have distributed a weekly "Shoppers Bulletin" to 73,000 homes. (Total circulation of the dormant evening News, Times-Leader and morning Record: 73,000.) Smaller stores have combined to publish a 24-page tabloid "Buyers Guide" with about 53.000 circulation, which also takes paid classified ads. By agreement...
...white lead on his kitchen stove, discovered vulcanization. That invention changed rubber from a scientist's plaything to one of mankind's most useful commodities. Today there are some 35,000 uses for rubber, 4,000,000 people are employed in the industry and its world-wide investment comes to $2,698,000,000. Greatest concentration of this great sum is found in Ohio's 122 rubber factories and last week in Akron, "rubber capital of the world," the industry celebrated its centennial by unveiling an eight-foot bronze statue of Vulcanizer Goodyear, presented to the city...
...Brokaw Pool--better known as simply old Brokaw Pool. This bath, built in the days when the trudgeon was man's fastest way of cleaving the waters, is not designed for modern intercollegiate swimming as most any Princeton man will readily admit. The tank is but four lanes wide and this narrowness results in a pretty rough surface when four sprinters are making their splashy way down the lanes...