Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like 999, Sir Malcolm's Blue Bird is hard to start. It has two small motors for this purpose. After training for six months (not drinking, smoking very little) and after waiting two weeks for a day when the wide flat beach would be sufficiently dry and smooth, Sir Malcolm Campbell last week had Blue Bird brought from the shed in which he keeps it. His chief mechanic, Leo Villa, helped him start the motors five miles above the measured mile course. Sitting low, looking through a streamlined pocket of glass at a motor-revolution gauge which looks like...
...Iowa month ago Governor Murray went to address great gatherings of farmers, was cheered till the rafters rang. That this sentiment for him was not all noise was revealed this month by a presidential State-wide poll conducted by the Des Moines Register and Tribune. President Hoover got 14,778 out of 17,925 Republican straw votes. Out of 38,732 Democratic votes, Governor Murray led with 13,427; Governor Roosevelt followed with 13,401 and Alfred Emanuel Smith came third with...
Governor Murray is a bookish man. His library of some 5,000 volumes is a precious possession. His reading is deep, wide, mostly classical. Many a visitor leaves him with a sense of astonishment at his erudition, his ability to quote and date and cite. Constitutional government is his specialty. The late great Champ Clark, observing him in the House, called him one of the greatest constitutional experts and parliamentarians ever to sit in Congress...
...announced that the program might be discontinued unless enough listeners wrote letters asking for its retention. (As an inducement, a beetle-ware tumbler was offered to every writer who sent in part of a Pepsodent carton.) Candidly Pepsodent admitted it wanted strong evidence that the expense of two nation-wide programs every night was justified. Last week Pepsodent announced that the returns warranted keeping "The" Goldbergs...
...black Hills. ". . . Beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw. ... I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy." On returning to himself he found that he had been lying unconscious for twelve days...