Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shell is 61 feet long and weighs 280 pounds", Lutz continued, "and is 25 inches wide and 10 1-2 inches deep. The frame is made of white pine, and all parts are mailed and not glued, as popular superstition would have it. The cover is made of solid pieces of Spanish cedar, and is also only one-eighth of an inch thick, and is mailed on, not glued. The deck is covered with waterproof silk...
...circular saw. In 1926 Indiana Limestone was formed to merge 24 small companies. Behind the deal was Lawrence Harley Whiting of Chicago, president of the investment banking house of Whiting & Co. For president and chief operating executive he chose an oldtime stoneman, Augustus Edwin Dickinson. Stoneman Dickinson, known wide and far as "Big Dick," started in the stone business in 1885 when he was 16. He is 6 ft. 4 in. tall, weighs 225 lb., is usually to be seen in a dark suit, a light felt hat. smoking a cigar...
Continuing its series of Cambridge concerts, the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Dr. Serge Koussevitzky will play this evening at 8 o'clock in Sanders Theatre. The program contains unusual numbers by a wide variety of composers. The last concert for the season will be given on Thursday evening, April...
...whose floor were six new cars. Motormaker Ford pointed at them proud as could be, while the Press took notes. Soon the country knew some things it has been waiting weeks to learn. The new Fords will be entirely different from old models, will be long, low and wide. They will be streamlined, with slanting windshields, V-shaped radiators with rounded crowns the same color as the bodies. They will have freewheeling, larger wheels, heavier tires, bigger hubcaps. The ignition key will be on the steering post, gasoline tank in the rear...
Apparently Mr. Craven has only to open his mouth to make an audience laugh. Loudest whoops of first-week spectators arose from a gag that enjoyed wide circulation in 1924. Mr. Craven, complaining about his friend's liquor, remarks: "Prewar...