Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were sufficiently well painted to stand on their own merits, or with their old, softened colors had something of the ingenuous attractiveness of the early work of the French Customs Agent Henri Rousseau. There were few such pictures for sale at the Folk Art Gallery. Instead there was a wide variety of cigar store Indians, wooden decoy ducks,* hobby horses, cast iron hitching posts, cast iron stove plates, weather vanes and examples of tatting and painting on velvetEN...
...between the attitude and practices of the English of contemporary times and their unenviable and unfortunate governmental and economic crisis. Perhaps the robust and thoughtless attitude which the United States has spread abroad with its produce and tourists has had an appreciable part in causing and aggravating the world-wide maladjustments...
German 4 is a full course devoted to studying the works of Goethe. As such it should, for obvious reasons, be the outstanding course offered by the department. That it falls short of being this by a wide margin is something to be regretted. The main fault of German 4 is the fact that two professors give it, thus destroying all unity and presenting two widely divergent methods of teaching...
...firms that sold the Waldorf's bond issue. It was he who drove the first rivet (gold) and troweled the final stone. Also on the directorate is tall, aloof Lucius Boomer, 52, president of Waldorf-Astoria Corp. Mr. Boomer is an oldtime hotel man with wide experience. He was in charge of the McAlpin (Manhattan) when the late General Coleman du Pont asked him to take over the old Waldorf. He is a big factor in Sherry's and the Sherry-Netherland Hotel, also has a large interest in the Savarin chain of high-grade restaurants in Manhattan...
...wide field is open to the news candidates, who in the course of his competition may leave tracks from the stacks of Baker Library to the inmost recesses of Langdell Hall. Assigned to two or three routine sources, candidates are encouraged to secure "scoops", interviews with a wide variety of victims, and feature stories, and to submit editorial material...