Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stretches, bone deep, a wide enduring grin...
...politics. Politics is no longer a decent profession. . . . When a government has fallen in the estimation of a people so that the finest and strongest people will not take part in it, that government is on the wane. The American Government is menaced by a very real, nation-wide disgust of this kind...
...Wilfred helped finance Eva Gauthier's musical education. She went to Europe. Intelligence and imagination helped her make much of a voice neither opulent nor particularly wide of range. She married a Dutchman (since divorced), went to Java to live. In Java she acquired her liking for Batik gowns and heavy oriental jewelry which seemed to go with her shiny black hair, her curious, slow-spreading smile. When she arrived in the U. S., she had added Javanese folk music to her repertoire...
...beneficial, and that "wider dining privileges would be extended, so that guests from one House may dine at another House without extra charge." Another repeated his conviction that "In time an innovation of this kind will be desirable, say in five years, but at the present time, too wide an extension of privileges will tend to destroy incipient House spirit...
...third House Master stated that he had "no strong convictions on the subject, since no plan which will meet all objections has yet been advanced." All definitely stated their belief that too wide an extension of dining privileges would not only upset the count which the Dining Hall kitchen uses to supply the proper quantities of food, but would injure the growth of House spirit, just as "a club's privileges cannot be infinitely extended, or it ceases to be a club." Two Masters said that they believed that the inter-House dining would further social contacts, and that acquaintances...