Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...part of a town's language. Their faces-wrinkled and burned by the sun, shadowed by visored caps-are part of a tradition of hot U. S. afternoons with crowds in shirtsleeves, ice cream in wilting cones and baseball players deployed, in excitingly soiled playing clothes, across the wide sweep of turf. St. Louis, especially, is a baseball town. To Sportsman's Park, isolated from the city by a wide belt of old brick houses, garages and disused beer gardens, come all the riffraff of the homely town, and most of its substantial citizens...
Like the Epsom Derby, the Manchester November Handicap, the Grand National is the subject of world-wide lotteries. This year U. S. newssheets were warned by the postal authorities that they would be prosecuted for advertising lotteries if they published the names of lottery winners in mail editions. Many a paper published the names of winners last week in their city editions but did not brave...
...great grey Cadillacs glide up to great buildings. Top hats and spats swagger along Commonwealth, while Malacca canes set the pavements smarting. An ascot tie and a white pearl move slowly up the wide stone steps. Black velvet and grey feathers sweep to the sidewalk and a car door slams. young men with their fathers' money and fathers with fathers' money smile stiffly to one another. Cameras snap and the papers have a picture of a bent leg and averted gaze underneath a resounding name...
...wide experience from hoping bread lines, soup kitchens, and rooming in lodging houses, Mr. Williams will explain the impulse to work...
...matter of Tutors Leverett perhaps is not as well equipped as some of the other Houses. While there are representatives from a wide number of helds their influence is not widely felt. The Tutors' table seems a too convenient refuge from the students, who receive little attention outside of conference. This segregation may be broken down in time when the Tutors and undergraduates have had the opportunity to become better acquainted with one another, but at the moment one of the fundamental purposes of the House Plan has been lost from sight...