Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day in a grey dawn the odd lull still hung over the city as though the good citizens had refused to awaken. No windows were flung wide to groet the morning, no one went whistling to work, the breakfast bacon seemed to lie quiet in its own grease. As the day wore on a strange murmur like far off breakers on a distant beach began in the St. Antoine to break the sullen quietude. Travelling slowly along the crooked streets it gathered volume always nearer, always louder. At last with a great roar it burst out around the high...
There was much of the usual magnificence. John P. Morgan's gardener, James S. Kelly, showed a wide border of giant tulips against a background of flowering dogwood. Mrs. Payne Whitney's Henning Michelsen built a brick-walled garden, gay with wisteria and flowering bulbs. Marshall Field's George Henry Gillies filled enough buckets with rare roses to bring his employer six different first prizes. Greenhousemen built a 60-ft. bank of flowering orchids like a chorus girl's dream of heaven. A million dollars' worth of blossoms and not a bug or a worm...
...Naval Observatory signaled "Go." Lieut. Brown pulled his switch. A strip of rocky earth a mile long by 200 ft. wide heaved up slowly, settled with roar and dust. At the distant earthquake observatories, the seismographs registered faint squiggles. Thus man knew that he had shaken the earth, made it quiver, trifling though that quiver...
Quiet Graham Bethune Grosvenor was president of wide-flung Aviation Corp. for two years when he was succeeded by hardbitten Frederic Gallup Coburn. President Coburn had served approximately two years last week when suddenly he relinquished the executive office on the 47th floor of Manhattan's Chanin Building to a broad-framed young man with a grin and a pipe. It was not surprising that the name of the president-elect, La Motte Turck Cohu, should be better known in Wall Street than in airway operations. Avco, which has yet to show black ink on a profit & loss statement...
...birds there were in the good feeding grounds, causing many shooters to doubt that a shortage existed. Bureau agents found such concentrations in Florida's "panhandle" district, in the Crane Lake area of Illinois, along Missouri's Sheridan River. Southern California's flight, usually 40 miles wide, was ten miles last year. Little affected by Drought were areas on Puget Sound, the Columbia River, the Susquehanna flats, and Long Island. Last year's curtailed season, believed to have reduced the kill from nearly 18 to seven million birds, may result in a longer season next autumn...