Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ingenuity guided the Good People, greed, extortion and ingenuity guided the Bad People. Thus $3 is a huge sum, and always has been, to some of Chapei's desperate poor, yet $3 was extorted again and again by Chinese sampanmen to ferry a refugee across the 60-ft. wide Soochow Creek to doubtful safety...
...shambling English sheep dog named Snowman, his sad eyes and wide shoulders muffled in a cloud of smoky coat, who had been brought from Toronto by F. T. James...
...jumping. The length of a jump on sMs depends largely on the topography of the hill. Ski-jumpers, who use especially wide skis with three grooves instead of one, to make them go straight, are judged on form. Ski-jump judges first picked 19-year-old Hans Beck of Kongsberg, Norway for two jumps of 232 and 208 feet. Then they changed their decision, ranked him second to another 19-year-old Kongs-bergian, Birger Ruud. Red-cheeked Ruud, who works in a gun factory, and whose older brother, Sigmund, finished seventh in the same event went...
...subjects have been limited. In making his debut over the radio last night he did not break away from his established custom. It was not so much as President of Harvard, but rather as Professor Lowell of the Government Department that he was speaking. As such his opinions demand wide recognition since there are few who will challenge his knowledge of world governmental affairs. In asking that the United States and the League of Nations cooperate in effecting an economic boycott on Japan he gave his assenting vote to a sentiment which it is hoped will gain rapid momentum...
...After a long week- end conference the Foreign Office announced to the Western Powers its new plan for China: The five most important Chinese cities, Tientsin, Tsingtao. Shanghai, Canton, Hankow, were to be taken over by the Powers, who would establish around them neutral zones 15 to 20 miles wide from which all Chinese soldiers and police were to be barred. The Western Powers promptly rejected the plan as a gross violation of Chinese sovereignty...