Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dueling during his term of office. Moreover all governors of the Palmetto State take the the oath that they have not engaged in any affair in the court of honor since 1881. This pledge is the result of the famous Cash Shannon duel of 1880 which caused State-wide opposition to the lost...
Peasant-born Albert Lebrun, the engineer recently elected President of France (TIME, May 16), sat owl-solemn through a Cabinet session last week, stroked his wide black mustache from time to time as Premier Tardieu formulated plans "to keep a much closer watch on all foreigners in France or entering France." Lest U. S., British or German tourists be scared away it was elaborately hinted that Russians, Italians and Spaniards will be the chief objects of scrutiny...
...stalwart old man, anthropologically a typical Alpine-globular head; wide-set eyes; square jaw; deep-set dark brown eyes; blobby, short-tipped, turned-down nose; broad shoulders; short, thick-set body; straight hair-boarded a boat at Seattle last week. He was Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, 63, curator of physical anthropology at the U. S. National Museum, bound for Kodiak Island off the coast of Alaska. There he will grub for the ancient debris which indicates that Mongoloid peoples millenia ago crept across Bering Strait,* down the western coast of the Americas and thence across the mountains and the rest...
Modification of the existing laws was favored by 411, while 334 advocated a nation-wide referendum of the Eighteenth Amedment. Only 104, or less than 7 per cent of those voting, were in favor of party platforms promising continuation of the present situation. One-hundred and fifty-four opposed making a political issue of the prohibition question. This stand was taken by many who indicated that they felt that the coming campaign should be fought on more important issues. Fourteen ballots were thrown...
...Princeton students favored a definite stand on the issue in the party platforms. Only 23 opposed this proposition. A vote of 785 was cast in favor of the suggestion that these platforms should advocate total repeal. The proposal for the submission of the Eighteenth Amendment to a nation-wide referendum received 395 votes, while 318 favored modification of the existing laws. Eighty-three favored a plank advocating continuation...