Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heart [of] millions of people who dwell in tenements, apartments and rented rows of solid brick. . . . This aspiration penetrates the heart of our national wellbeing. It makes for happier married life. It makes for better children. It makes for courage to meet the battle of life. . . . There is a wide distinction between homes and mere housing. Those immortal ballads, 'Home, Sweet Home,' 'My Old Kentucky Home' and 'The Little Grey Home in the West' were not written about tenements or apartments. . . . They were written about an individual abode, alive with tender associations of childhood...
...over-emphasis. In an atmosphere where football is considered the central interest of college life, it probably passes as a regrettable but minor blunder. To those who think of a university as something more than a field-house and a stadium, it will appear as the outcome of a wide-spread evil in contemporary college life...
...height and stoutish, the present Sage of East Aurora at 49 hunts, fishes, farms & rides much as did his famed father. Golf he dislikes as it shows nothing for the effort. He prefers chopping wood. The Buster Brown cut of the thick hair, the flowing black silk tie, the wide-brimmed felt hat of the founder have been adopted (and greatly modified) by the son. But here the father-son resemblance ends. Many changes have come to the Shops. In the early days all of the workers were shareholders; profits were split; Hubbard the First took a salary...
...cause of the proposed step is laid at the door of the present depression, and of what the present director characterizes as the "museum habit," a wide-spread and natural tendency to visit the gallery without considering the financial burden necessary to maintain it. The Society was organized three years ago by a group of Harvard undergraduates and has been supported both in exhibits and money solely by contributions from New York. These contributions which have only recently been cancelled because of the depression, were rapidly being superceded by Cambridge and Boston aid which has, however, been found insufficient...
...first of a series of lectures on the "History of Medicine" will be given in the amphitheatre of Building C of the Harvard Medical School today at 5 o'clock. The lecturer is Professor Henry E. Sigerist of the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Professor Sigerist has attained world-wide fame in his field of medical history, and is making his first lecture tour of this country. He will talk on "Civilization and Disease...